Parenting Goals Quotes

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

At the end of the day, I'm a dad, and I try to give my kids everything I never had as a kid.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Before I had a child, I had goals. And I still have to accomplish those goals, but now that I have a child, I have more goals to accomplish. So I can't waste time.

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

What I wanted originally was six kids.

I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

My children come first and the career comes in around that.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.

I had a tough childhood after my father died when I was five, and I had a very difficult stepfather. I want to give my children what I didn't have - a good role model.

I would love to have twins - a girl and a boy - but who knows if that would happen. It would be my ideal situation. Wham, bam, be done with it.

I want kids: two adopted and three of my own.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.

I'm just gonna focus on raising my girls forever, and that's gonna be it.

You can make changes in your life and you can say, "I'm going to be a better parent next year than I am right now," or, "I'm going to take an extra step in my career and not just be satisfied where I am." So it has a lot to do with our will, but also we have to work as well.

My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

My true inspiration is to give everything to my kids that I never had. I had a really rough upbringing, and I want to break that chain. I've broken the chain, and I want to give my kids happiness every single day. When they wake up and hop on me and say; 'Dad I love you,' that is what means the most to me.