Joe Scarborough Quotes

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

I have three boys. Sometimes my wife and I really have to battle to keep video games from encroaching.

At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled... until the next.

My boys are wild. My daughter is wild.

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

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

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

I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

When you have girl children they torture you!

My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

You can't equate me with Joe Jackson. I've never hit my kid, I'm educated, I understand the business world.

As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.

Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids.

I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

My father very early on had both short and long-term strategies in his approach to raising his children, so my father was disturbed by the extent to which I was interested in both hip-hop and sports.

I was so fully involved in football and building a career that I didn't spend nearly enough time with my son when he was growing up.

I love kids, but I also recognize that things could be better for mine.

Leading your family is a lot tougher than basketball.

Parenting is a learning process.