Barack Obama Quotes

Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner.

My advice for raising daughters is to spend time with them doing things you both enjoy.

When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

I see my boys about 10 days every month. And, yes, they are the most important people in my life.

My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.

I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.

I play video games a lot... I love to read... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.

My first priority is time with my family.

I'm going to spend some time with my family. My kids are really in the years where I'm starting to miss more stuff, and we're going to stay very involved in politics.

My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service.

I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.

I don't want to be doing anything else, I just want to be with my family.

We just love spending time with family.

I really like sitting down with my daughter to watch programmes like 'Call the Midwife,' '24 hours in A&E,' 'One Born Every Minute' and 'Our Girl.' It's just the two of us, which is really nice.

I'm a family man. I really enjoy being with my family.

I am a complete sucker for family time.

There's no one more valuable for me to learn from than Tom and his wife, Gisele Bundchen, in a lot of ways. Every time I'm around them, I learn. The way they are with their kids, the way they make time to spend with each other, they are just good people.

I'm married. I have a daughter, so I put aside time in the day to spend with them.

Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.

Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything. The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater, and he looked at me and said, 'Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.'