Ruth Rendell Quotes

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell.

But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.

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

It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.

My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don't want to sacrifice anybody else's privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don't love them. I think I've been a really good dad; at least, I try to be.

New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.

You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.