Leslie Caron Quotes

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

I have never had a nanny with any of my children.

Hiring someone to look after your children is about the most important thing you will ever do in your life.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

We don't have nannies and all that, we look after our own kids. It's just what you do. If you want a big family that's just what you do, isn't it?

A parent who is high is unavailable to attend to the needs of a child.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

We all want to raise our children well.

It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.

Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.

Having high quality daycare is by far the most important thing you can do when your kids are little. When I relocated, I spent more time looking for daycare than I did looking for a house.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.