Jean Louisa Kelly Quotes

Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a little afraid we're doing it wrong.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

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 do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.

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?

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

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.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

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

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

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.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

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

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

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.

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a perfect parent... You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection.