Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

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

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

That undeniable love for your child... that's something I totally get. And the bumps in the road, too. Like, any parent that thinks they have a perfect relationship with their child is a liar, or they're just not present.

Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.

One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

Many single mothers do a heroic job looking after their children, as mine did with us; but as she found, it becomes twice as hard to set boundaries with half the number of parents.

I worry about my children, actually. I'm trying to give them a decent upbringing but I sometimes worry that that means they're going to be kind of mediocre adults. Like maybe I should throw them out for a bit and give them some adversity.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

The challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.

Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

When a child is out of control, he or she needs you, the parent, to make them feel safe.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

Kids want you to take them to whatever kid movie is opening, and you just hope it's good because you're going to buy a ticket, no matter what. If it's no good, you kind of drape your arm over your kid so they don't get smashed, and you take a little nap.

I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can.

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

It is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children.

My boys are wild. My daughter is wild.

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

Siddhant has received a perfect upbringing from his mother and it's up to me now to continue on the same track. But I must say that it's definitely not possible for a father to play the role of a dad and mom simultaneously.