Busy Philipps Quotes

Going from one kid to two kids is insane.

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

Kids ... Can't live with 'em ... Can't shoot 'em!

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to.

Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

Do your kids a favor - don't have any.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I wouldn't say that a big family is for everybody, and I've brought my kids, for example, to New York City, and I can tell you it's much harder to raise that number of kids in a city like New York than it is to raise them in rural Wisconsin where I live.

How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere.

There is immense pressure of being caught in the rat race. At such times, I'm glad I have just one child.

It takes a village to raise a child; that's how I basically balance it. It's twenty four hours in a day.

I would love to coach and teach people about football. It's just that the time constraints are so tough to coach, especially when you have seven kids and they are growing up. I'm just in too blessed of a situation to spend from five in the morning until 12 at night coaching and not watching my kids grow up.

I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.

Embrace it. Especially because of the lives we live, a lot of times other people have to care for [our kids] and you have to have that mommy time, Get your sleep!

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

I'd love to have three or four kids. But my mom always says: "Speak to me after you have your first".

There are some people who get money just because they've got large families. So if it pays to make large families and earn more money than you would earn out at work, why not have more families, larger families? That's wrong.

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.