Bonnie Bedelia Quotes

I enjoy my family a lot. I have active teenagers, and they're in soccer and choral events.

We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

The great thing about Little League was that anyone could play it.

Growing up, my father coached my basketball team, and my mother drove me into St. Louis for various rehearsals between musical productions and Radio Disney.

It was a normal childhood, like the childhoods of all children my age: going to school, playing in the street with friends, spending time at home with my family.

I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.

Apart from having heart surgery as a baby, I had a pretty normal upbringing. I attended mainstream school and did gymnastics and dancing.

I want my children to have fantastic memories of their growing years, so I try to be as much a part of their lives as possible.

When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.

I'm so blessed with my Baby. [...] I just want the most normal life possible for him. [...] I will manage. I will create that.

My dream was to become a rec league coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

Much of what we do with our kids is social and that's good, and we shouldn't stop all that. I mean, how boring would it be that, no, we can't eat anything out so we're just going to go home and sit in the closet and wait to the next day.

At some point it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I was able to draw a lot from my own childhood, my friends' childhoods as well and my daughters' friends who are like my children as well. They multiply all the time. So you can have everything and say I can get all this done and then late at night one of your kids have a freak out about school or an assignment you end up staying up til 3 in morning helping them through it. Or somebody gets sick or has a crisis.

Europe is a very different place from my native country of Colombia and my children are growing up in a very urban setting which is nothing like when I was growing up and would be able to play barefoot in the street. But we have a very good life.

My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.