Matt Haig Quotes

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

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

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

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.

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

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 it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

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

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.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

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