Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]'re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don't think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

I've got kids and that's important. It's funny, you think that there's an expiration date on them and there just isn't.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

You have only one chance to raise your child.

Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.

I respect Donald Trump's children. His children are incredibly able and devoted, and I think that says a lot about Donald. I don't agree with nearly anything else he says or does, but I do respect that. And I think that is something that as a mother and a grandmother is very important to me.

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

I have two children, and they know that I never pass up a piece of cake, ever.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

I'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.