Chris Rock Quotes

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with children.

My early memories of my dad were taking me to play football when I was six - they are happy ones. They are my favourites.

I am dedicated to giving my kids the memory of happy parents. So I spend a lot of time with them. We really know each other. If they should decide later on that they hate me, at least they'll know who they're hating.

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

People are way too hard on themselves. Comparing yourself to other people can be damaging; the most important thing is just to be you and to try to engage with your child. If you're constantly working, so you don't have that much time to spend with them, but you have 20 minutes at the end of the day to read them their favourite book, children will remember that.

How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever?

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.

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.

My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

I spend a lot of time with my children. I like to go to the country with them, where we can spend hours walking in the woods and talking. That's more important to me than anything else.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.