Tommy Lee Quotes

I have two little kids, and they both came out completely different, with their own personalities.

I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'

A child's first teacher is its mother.

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

I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.

… the idea that children have rights they can claim against their parents, rather than obligations, seems to strike at the heart of the most valued social institution of all, the family.

The thing I like the best, especially being a parent of so many kids, Is that they're all so different. You love them all equally, but they're all so different from each other and that's the cool thing, to see their personalities start to develop and see how unique and different they all are and to be able to love them in their own unique ways. It's really, really, really special.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

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

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

I have a daughter, Catherine, aged 30. I have a 9-year-old son, Nathaniel, a 7-year-old son, Ridley, and a 6-year-old daughter, Truma. I'm 68. The age gap between the younger kids and me is not something I think about much because I feel physically about like I did when I was 40, or at least, I think I do.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

I come from big families. My momma was the oldest of three and my daddy was one of six - and I've always loved children. They bring a lot of joy to the world and they make us adults look at things in a better way.