Mark Twain Quotes

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

When I was growing up, my father was naturally a very busy man and was not around for long periods of time. Despite that he was always emotionally with me.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

I don't want to be the dad that's not there. I don't want the kid to ever think that I wasn't there.

My dad sacrificed his relationship with me so I'd be stronger for it. But I could never do it to my kids - I like to have a happy relationship with them.

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

Mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend unused one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children.

Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E.

Always be involved in your children's lives. Life gets hectic but we have to find a way to always stay connected and let our kids know that they are loved.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

Frankie is my baby. He is the sweetest dog in the world. Frankie is like the son I never had. He keeps me healthy; I walk and run him. I always feel that I need to spend more time with him and give him more attention. I find myself unloading my emotions on him.