I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books.
It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.
I have a very close relationship with my parents.
I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.
I love being around my mom and my dad.
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
The best compliment we ever got on 'Clone Wars' was a parent coming up and telling me that it was something they could watch with their kids. I really love that.
Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.
Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.
Having a sit down, no screens, home cooked dinner is one of the most powerful things you can do as a parent and I believe it's the most important activity you can do as a family.
If you sit down and read with your kid, either having your child read to you or you reading to your child at a regular time each day, it deepens the relationship. You don't have to talk about stuff; the story will do that work for you.
The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a story... and taking advantage of the fact that we looked like a father and son.
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.
I would write songs, inspired by my baby, but then I could tell that my baby was also responding to the music. It was just kind of an amazing musical experience.
'The Joy Luck Club' is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom - and bursting into tears after the screening!
As parents, we all share the same emotions and relationship with our kids.
I love my kids; I'm very close to all three of them.
The only people on this planet that can make me feel like my feelings are hurt are my kids.
People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.
I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there.
A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.
