Carre Otis Quotes

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.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

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.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

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.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

Every child needs both parents.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

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

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

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.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.