Rahul Dev Quotes

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.

Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with my kids.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

Because I practice often with my children at home.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

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

I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.

Instead of giving your children more things, give them more time.

Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with children.

Being a parent is the toughest thing I've ever done. But I'm not the kind of person to throw my kid in front of a TV. I'm the one to take out a book, puzzle, or flash cards.

The thought of being active in my kid's lives motivates me.

Active dads make a positive contribution: they are good for children and they are good for mothers.

I see Amit spends a lot of time with the kids which is even reflective in their behaviours because most of their mannerisms seem to be influenced by their father.

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

I was happy to spend time with my family, get to know my daughter, who was born during The West Wing. I missed her first words. I missed her first steps. I'd leave work before she woke up and got home after she was asleep and didn't really know her. So it was important for that reason to reintroduce myself to the family after all of that hard work.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

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