Joseph Jackson Quotes

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

I think I was brought up in a respectful household.

We all want to raise our children well.

I'm going to obviously do my best as a father to set a good example for my children, and I want them to see good examples from our leaders.

Good parents, who are able to maintain the affection and respect of their children and whose offspring admire them and value their good opinion, can be reasonably certain that their values and ways of socialized behaving will be adopted by the next generation.

I'm lucky my parents raised me well.

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.

I'm a dad with six kids, and I'm trying to teach each of them a little bit of morality.

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

My parents kept me very grounded.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.