Tracy Morgan 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.

It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier.

Showing up in the lives of children is everything.

You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

Ninety per cent of being a parent is just being present and available.

I don't want to be the dad that's not there. I don't want the kid to ever think that I wasn't there.

Don't just be a mystery to your kids. You need your kids to know you and know they can call you whenever they need you.

My kids really still share the one thing that I think is life-changing, and that's eye contact with me. As they've gotten older, I have made it a priority to continue that.

America needs more fathers taking an active role in their children's lives.

When you have kids, you just love them. It's similar to when you're in love with someone. You just think they are so cool and want to be around them all the time, but what if she starts being embarrassed and only giving me charity visits? I want her to actually want to see me, so that's what I'm going for!

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.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

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

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.

As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.