Jane Fonda Quotes

Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.

When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy.

The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.

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

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to.

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

When you're a parent, your child's health is your number one concern, and to get the news that your child has diseases or is unhealthy, I'm sure, is absolutely crushing.

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

My greatest fear is that I'll fail my kids.

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

I have different reasons for the way that I react to things now that I have kids. It's not about me, it's about my children going out into this world that makes me say, "What the hell are you all doing?" I have to put them out there, and then I have to worry.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

It's weird people think my kids will be in therapy because of their names. Guys, my kids will be therapy for LOTS of reasons, I'm sure.

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility of letting your own parents down.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.