Christie Hefner Quotes

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Every child needs both parents.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

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.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

No matter how much you love your spouse, you won't love them in the same way you do your baby. It's a different love, and everything changes. You have to figure out how to parent together.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

I do not wish to share any parenting responsibilities with Michael because he is doing so well without me.