Romesh Ranganathan Quotes

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having kids... trying to be a father, at least. It's an amazing process. It's like songwriting: it's a complete mystery to me. I don't understand it - but I've certainly written about it.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

Being a parent is amazing.

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.