Parenting Role Quotes

I think our jobs as parents is to raise our children with empathy - to figure out who this little character is, almost from birth, and then guide them to fulfill their best potential.

Parents are responsible for the sexual education of their children.

It's my favorite role - being a mom.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

Well let me just say, for a man, a lot of how your approach and you're dealing with women comes from your mom.

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.

I would like to have a go at TV. I think, especially when you have kids, that you spend a lot of time watching telly, and you think, 'How come I'm not doing that?'

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

Stay-at-home mothers are building our future. And I feel like if we had more of them, our society would not be in such a decline.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

I was an at-home father, taking care of them for seven years when they were babies. I was one of those new-age, at-home dads.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

As the family goes, so go the children.

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

Being a stepfather is a huge challenge.