Blake Lively Quotes

Let me tell you, when you're pregnant with the first one, it's great of course, all new and 'Yay!' With the second one it's still okay; you can pay attention to number one and she can share in the joy of the pregnancy.

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I'm always looking forward to seeing what they're going to become and what they're going to be interested in later in life.

There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.

Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

I knew that I always wanted a family, but I can honestly say that it's nothing like I imagined it would be.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.