Dee Snider Quotes

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

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

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

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

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.

Let's be honest: Parents like me.

I do know I will enjoy family life. What I've seen from moms, or heard stories from people who became a parent, it's such a consuming thing; it's such a wonderful thing. I consider it an extreme luxury to have that time and to not have to do anything else, and just be with my kid.

I've done bits where I've perhaps talked about my kids annoying me and you hope that the audience realise that you do actually love your children. You can still be a good parent and be frustrated by your kids.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

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

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

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

It is always fragile, being a parent.