Parenting Ease Quotes

It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?

I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.

I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby.

A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.

There is immense pressure of being caught in the rat race. At such times, I'm glad I have just one child.

Baby-carrying means your hearts are close together. It's a very intense and beautiful way to bond with your baby, very intimate. It's also easier than a stroller.

I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.

My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.

Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.