Diane Keaton Quotes

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

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Kids need a father around to make them whole. They need their mom.

I understand how important it is for both parents to be in a child's life.

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.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

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

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

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

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

Every child needs both parents.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

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

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.