James Earl Jones Quotes

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

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

You take responsibility for your children but you're not always the taxi driver and that doesn't make you a bad parent.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

Every child needs both parents.

Kids need a father around to make them whole. They need their mom.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

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.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

We don’t want a village to raise a child. We want a family.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

I, as a mom, wanted to be really present for my son in the first couple of years, because I know that those years are very important for a kid. So I decided not to work during that period.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

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.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I never turned down a mother role.

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.