Lauren Conrad Quotes

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

I think I would have appreciated being at home with my kids a little bit more. Raising a child, surely that in itself is the biggest thing we're ever going to do?

I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child.

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

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.

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

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

Especially with me working in the entertainment industry, I think my kids are aware of weight and fat much earlier than other kids. It was important to me from the beginning to make sure they understand things like why too much sugar is bad for you, etc.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

I've always been a youth advocate. I mean, that's been my brand, reaching out to young people. All my life, when I've dealt with youth I'd be thinking back to my own experience. Now I look at my kids and think forward.

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

I think because I was a mother, it helped me feel comfortable that really my primary goal there was to save my kids.

I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.

You think my kids just popped out of the ground?

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.