Chris Cleave Quotes

You have your children and it's hard to even hold it in - emotionally.

Going from one kid to two kids is insane.

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

It is very tough to bring up a child on your own.

It's very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with ­children with any kind of special needs is very difficult.

Taking care of children was not something I was good at.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

If you're a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I'm concerned, and you're working hard to put food on your family.

Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

When I knew I was going to be able to write full time, I wondered, "What's going to happen to the relationships within my family?" Are they going to change? Is it going to be the kind of deal where you say, "I can't take this! Get me out of here! I can't stand these screaming kids!" The way it turned out was, I was able to change the diapers okay, after I stuck the pin through my fingers a few times. I had a dawning realization that children are not particularly hard to deal with.

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

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

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.

We're in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.

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

Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.

Honestly, the challenge about being a mom is when something goes wrong - someone's sick, getting someone to doctor's appointments.

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.