Beeban Kidron Quotes

My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.

My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled... until the next.

I realize that I was being the kind of parent that I thought my daughter needed. I was a good role model for her on what a working mom can do.

I am a single mum. I raised my daughter, and she was very listened to.

I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.

I say to my kids all the time - and this is absolutely true - I always say, 'Who's the boss?' and they go, 'You are.'

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised by a single mother who raised me incredibly well.

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!

My mom could be pretty strict.

I have a wife who's a great mom.

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

I'm not a chef, and I'm not an expert at anything. I'm just a mom and a wife.

The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

My mom was funny and nutty. I suppose she had to be to survive raising 10 kids. To cope and keep a cap on things, she kept us buoyant and harmonious. She wouldn't let us express anger, which later on landed me in therapy but also made it easier for me to play laid-back, measured roles.

I'm very nurturing. I come from a large family, and my parents were loving. But the most important thing for me as a mum is to keep my word. When I say no, I mean no.

When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wife used to call me Captain Von Trapp from 'The Sound of Music.' I tended to be a little more authoritarian. I had been a very disciplined child myself, so I made the mistake of thinking one size fits all.

I don't think anything changes after marriage. Things change in a big way after becoming a mother.

I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families around were just laws unto themselves, it was really tribal.

Trump must've been an extraordinary father to have raised well-adjusted kids.

You don't need too much to have an agenda of how to father. You just have to be a good person. The interactions at home between you and your spouse and the way you deal with your kids in certain situations, that's what they take.

My father was very strict.