Nicole Scherzinger Quotes

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

I don't get that with the nannies. What's your point if you have a child and you aren't raising it?

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.

I traveled a lot, but we didn't hire nannies to take care of our kids. We were both very hands-on. My wife did the lion's share because I traveled a lot, but it was important to us to do our best.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.

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

It's my personality to be more quiet and reserved. I'm not going out every night to multiple things. I prefer to stay in and be with my children and do Spanish homework to make sure they get a good grade the next day.

My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

We don’t want a village to raise a child. We want a family.

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

Nobody can raise your kids like you can yourself.

We just don't like the idea of turning the children over to nannies and minders. We like to help them ourselves - and then, of course, we know what to tell them when they ought to do something on their own.

I, as a mom, wanted to be really present for my son in the first couple of years, because I know that those years are very important for a kid. So I decided not to work during that period.

The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.