Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.

I have a daughter who has taught me a lot along the way.

The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child will turn out to be? And how much can you control that?

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

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

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.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

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

Ninety per cent of being a parent is just being present and available.

As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.

There's no one right way to be a person, we're all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through.

Parenting definitely has some challenging moments.

Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs there is. It's one of the greatest things, too, but it's also probably the hardest thing anybody ever does.

I enjoy the challenge of being a father... I try to do my best to be there for my children.

I have always been a mother. When I was kid, I mothered my younger brother. I mothered my parents and even my boyfriends.

I feel like I'm going to be like the ghetto 'Gilmore Girls' because I feel like this child is going to be more mature than I am because just look at me!

I think kids are in your temporary care, and that they probably arrive with pretty much the personalities they're going to have. I grew up in a perfectly traditional family and turned out how I did. I'm not sure there's much that the family can do except lots of love and lots of care and lots of chances for them to develop the best they can.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.