Reese Witherspoon Quotes

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

If you want to know my character, look at the kids I've raised.

The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child will turn out to be? And how much can you control that?

My parents kept me very grounded.

We all want to raise our children well.

But the people who give me the best reality check are my children.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

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

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 the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right.

My children keep me real and keep me honest.

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

I definitely do want a family. The idea of being a father and providing the type of love, guidance and support that my parents have given me is definitely down the road.

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

I think I was brought up in a respectful household.

It takes a village to raise a child.

A capable mother keeps her young people employed and thus out of mischief. She demands from them co-operative helpfulness. She maintains Shelter. She distributes praise and blame. She keeps order. She does not pretend to practice "democracy", the children do not elect their teachers nor determine the methods of family government. Any mother who knows her business is in her home an absolute domestic dictator. It is she who decides what the children shall eat and wear, when they shall get up or go to bed, and go to school, and come home, &c. Her reign extends however, only over the young and her sole object is to fit them to take proper care of themselves later and to make their own way in life

My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

My parents were strict but loving.