Michael Jackson Quotes

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

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.

Being parents suits us. Having kids has been the best thing for both of us.

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.

Taking care of children was not something I was good at.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

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

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.

When you have a little 10-month-old who is climbing up your leg because you are their mountain - there's no nobler reason to get out of bed every day. There's no better reason to live, to make sure you provide as much guidance and as much room for that child to thrive.

Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it's a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I'll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can't wait to meet them.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

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

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.