Nikki Sixx Quotes

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

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

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

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.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.