Susan L. Taylor Quotes

My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.