You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!
Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.
I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'
If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down.
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.
I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.
As an older dad you can certainly get down on the floor. The problem is can you get up again?
No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing I've ever done but I'm loving it.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.
My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.
Raising George Walker was not easy.
It's hard for a black man to raise a family.
The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.
It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.
It's so hard to find the time. I only have one kid and it's hard with one kid. I can't imagine people who have more than that.
There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.
I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.
Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'
Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.
Many single mothers do a heroic job looking after their children, as mine did with us; but as she found, it becomes twice as hard to set boundaries with half the number of parents.
