Eminem Quotes

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

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

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

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

I'm the father of four daughters.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

I've done bits where I've perhaps talked about my kids annoying me and you hope that the audience realise that you do actually love your children. You can still be a good parent and be frustrated by your kids.

As a parent, when I fail to listen to my kids, when our kids stop bringing us our problems, we have all failed as parents and as leaders.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.