Anthony Edwards Quotes

You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

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

Let's be honest: Parents like me.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

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

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?