Diana Rigg Quotes

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

I am a single mum. I raised my daughter, and she was very listened to.

I think, as a working mother, what is more challenging for me is that I get to balance both work and home and prioritise my kid's life.

You don't need too much to have an agenda of how to father. You just have to be a good person. The interactions at home between you and your spouse and the way you deal with your kids in certain situations, that's what they take.

I tell people with children still in the house to go out once a week and talk about anything but the children. Otherwise, once you are an empty nester you might have nothing to talk about.

Moms, you should parent in whatever way works for your family and spend less time worrying about other people's perceptions of how you're doing.

If anything gets in the way of me being a good mom or wife, I simply say no.

Naturally you want to be the best mom you can, but then also you want to be the best performer you can.

Many single mothers do a heroic job looking after their children, as mine did with us; but as she found, it becomes twice as hard to set boundaries with half the number of parents.

I feel like I'm a really good mom.

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

It's a new skill to have two children that want you at the same time.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

The original 'Artist's Way' focused on the nurturing of the self. The 'Artist's Way for Parents' focuses both on nurturing the self and nurturing the children in our care.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

It's about not rewarding your children with food, not always celebrating with food. I do think it's important to find other ways to comfort our children and ourselves, to work other ways of celebrating and rewarding.