Parental Feelings Quotes

I adore children, but I was never that interested in new born babies. It's a terrible thing to have to admit, and you're not supposed to think that way as a woman, but everyone promises it's different when you have your own. It wasn't for me, though.

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

'The Voice Kids' was a tremendous success in Holland. There was a big emotional reaction from the parents of the children taking part.

Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?

A nanny, by being the child's doughty defender, may put sensitive noses out of joint.

My dad was fine, but I have to say my mum was upset when I said I was leaving home.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.

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.

I didn't want to hurt my parents' feelings about how hard certain things were in my 20s, how hard it was when my dad left my senior year before I went to college.

The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.