Rumer Willis Quotes

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

No one likes a pushy parent, and, 'pride' being one of the seven deadly sins, I needed to tread very carefully when creating a show about my eldest son, Tom, better known as Peter Parker and even better known as Marvel's new 'Spider-Man.'

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself. Some of those insecurities come out and are projected through your child.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

People think I must have pushy parents, but that's not the case.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

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

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'