Magnus Scheving Quotes

Kids have a tendency to switch off if their parents are multitasking.

I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.

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.

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

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.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

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.

For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents and their kids. And I was really impressed. They all sort of managed to do it, and do it gracefully.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

I really enjoy the company of my kids... I'm not one of those people who goes 'Yeah, my kids are my mates', that's a dreadful kind of mother, but I'm fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.

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.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

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

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

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

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.