Zach Cregger Quotes

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

My father was the nurturing one, the one who always made sure my sister and I ate properly and that our hair was brushed... He really took care of the logistics of our upbringing.

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

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

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

It's just not possible to be a real partner if you aren't materially participating. I believe even the busiest business owners must drive a carpool, pack a lunch, help with homework, make a breakfast or dinner, and consistently attend school events.

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

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

At home, I'm daddy and a husband. There's no Superman's cape. I'm changing diapers, giving my kids baths, and coloring 'Angry Birds' and playing games with them.

It's important to show that fathers do cook for their children. Mine sure did.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.