Mark Hoppus Quotes

You're going to figure it out, as you go. I think that's how people feel about having children, as well. You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.

We were so unprepared that when my husband took off to get groceries, and we'd adopted a 3-year-old, he came back with baby formula, a steak and a teething ring. We had no idea what we were doing. But you learn. There's no way to fully prepare. Just eyes wide open - jump.

Fathers, for the first time, we have no clue what we're doing. I had no idea when I became a father.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.

You start getting hit with some very interesting situations in life - you as a parent - when they approach that teenage area, which is frightening because you still have memories of that age and the things you were doing at that age... Please don't do what I did.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

I'm a work in progress. You know, my kids didn't come with instructions... and neither did this business, so when I put the two of them together, I gotta take it a little at a time.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, 'Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.'

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.