Parental Role Quotes

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

I am a son, husband and father of two children. I have to take care of their needs and concerns.

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

When I became a mother, there was no doubt in my mind that it would be the most vital and important job I would ever have because I knew firsthand what it was like not to have a mother.

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 children learn through their parents.

I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

While I have always had a good relationship with my father, much of the time it has been a very limited relationship until I was older. So you can't really give him credit or blame for how I turned out.

My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.