Emily Deschanel Quotes

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

My wife and I are constantly bombarded with questions from our children, from the mundane and repetitive to the surprisingly insightful. It's amazing how many times three children can say 'Daddy' in just one hour, much less one day.

I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

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

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

My children were the center of my life.