Jake Tapper Quotes

You have family and kids, you get home and they want to play with you but you just end up on your phone. I caught myself doing that when my little one wanted a kickaround and I decided I'd had enough.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.

Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.

Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I'm really busy can be an indulgence. I love taking naps. I love to stay up too late with close friends. I believe in everything in moderation. I take what I like and leave what I don't.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

You can't party all the time - especially in January!

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I have said a lot that it's very important to me to make time for my child and make her the priority. I made sacrifices so that I'm around and not traveling for that.

I find often I'm wandering around the park with my kids, and I notice something, and I think, 'Oh, I could come up with a clever Facebook post about that.' It's like, 'Wait a minute - that's not what I should be thinking. I should be present in the moment with my kids.'

I want to give the music attention and be in the studio. I want to give all my attention to my music, my kids, my family, so I just wanna focus on certain things besides social media.

I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.

I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.

I want my children to see me first every morning, so I wake up at 5 and make sure to shower and exercise before they get up.

When I am with my kids, I don't have my phone on me.

Since we had our son, all TV is negotiable.