Salma Hayek Quotes

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am.

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

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 always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I want to watch my son grow up. I want to spend time with my family. There's a lot of the world that I want to see and experience.

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

We see the worth and appreciate the discipline my father inculcated in us.

We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.

I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

I'm a fun dad, but I don't know if I'm the fun, crazy dad.

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

For some people, the highlight of their entire month could be going out and eating a pizza or watching a movie at a multiplex, and here I am visiting four countries in a month. So, in that way, movies have made me socially aware. I now know how simple people live their lives.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It's the sweetest thing.

My son is my routine and priority, period!

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.