Busy Philipps Quotes

I'm a traditionalist, a family man. I love my kids. I believe I have brought them up the right way. They are all very different: they have different drives, different ambitions. They are never going to be me. They are going to be themselves.

I would say that children are more resilient than you realize, and that as long as you love them, there is no right way to raise your children. You have to find your own way. It's your way and it's your child.

Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.

There's no mantra for bringing up a kid.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.