Adam Mansbach Quotes

My son is my routine and priority, period!

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

My daughter is 12 weeks old and I've been in a training camp for 10 weeks. So I haven't held her properly and been out pushing the pram, doing the little things. But when I'm slugging it out and things are getting tough I just think, 'everything is for the kids.'

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

Being a father gave me a new purpose for existing. That newfound purpose has somehow given me the stamina and patience to take on the endless stream of challenges that come along with parenthood.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

Once you have a small child who depends on you for every little thing, you're responsible for him. It's a huge responsibility. For me, it makes me into a more responsible person.

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.

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

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

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.