Rahul Dev Quotes

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

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

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

I like working with kids. I just have a way with kids.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.

I want to be a mom who listens.

I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.

I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

I think I would make a good father. I'd be a disciplinarian.

When you have a little 10-month-old who is climbing up your leg because you are their mountain - there's no nobler reason to get out of bed every day. There's no better reason to live, to make sure you provide as much guidance and as much room for that child to thrive.