Eric Braeden Quotes

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

Working parents, working families, and expectant workers are vital members of our workforce. Ensuring their success is how we maintain our global economic advantage.

With TV shows that film in London, you're pretty much around for your kids, so that's good.

It is the responsibility of all of us to create a culture that encourages and enables fathers to spend more time with their families.

...parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.

I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

I am grateful for the willingness of both Jurgen Klinsmann and Everton manager Roberto Martinez to afford me the opportunity to spend time with my kids.

When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.