Jane Fonda Quotes

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

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

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

Every child needs both parents.

Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]'re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don't think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

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.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves.

I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents and their kids. And I was really impressed. They all sort of managed to do it, and do it gracefully.