Jo Swinson Quotes

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

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

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

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

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.

Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with children.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

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

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

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 can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your kids. And that's where most parents come from.

I, as a mom, wanted to be really present for my son in the first couple of years, because I know that those years are very important for a kid. So I decided not to work during that period.

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.

I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.

Every child needs both parents.

Just being able to be around your kid, I don't think anything can beat that.

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.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.