Parenting worries Quotes

As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.

As a parent, you worry about kids' safety and the world they're living in.

My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.

Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.

The greatest thing I could say about my son, and this is what you always worry about with your kids, that they kinda outgrow their Mom and Dad. But for him, when I see him, when he calls me Dad, and he can still hug me, he's still like my little boy. Even around his friends, he still calls me Dad.

I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna.

I did research when I was pregnant with my first daughter and was horrified by the chemicals in products, even those meant for babies. I would have to go to 50 different places just to get my house and my kid clean.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

The minute you become a parent, you're always going to wonder if you're doing something wrong, and I certainly experience that on a daily basis. It's a big challenge, and you can't help wondering if you're doing anything wrong. You have to trust your instincts and do what feels right for you.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

You know, I think that we are going to be OK. Look, Malia is 10, so three years from now she is 13. Who knows what happens to teenagers?

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.

Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?

I love the little suckers; they're so cute. But I love sleep so much, and I worry about everything.