Meg Tilly Quotes

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

To all you mothers out there who are raising your children alone either by choice or necessity, don't let anyone tell you you're not a family.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

Do your kids a favor - don't have any.

It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.

Kids don't come with instruction manuals. It's interesting, but after you have your kids, it's a blessing. It's not as hard as people may think it is.

As I started parenting, I realised there is no formula to it.

It is very tough to bring up a child on your own.

No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing I've ever done but I'm loving it.

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

The challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in.

Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.