“My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.”
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“It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.”
“Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.”
“Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.”
“We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.”
“Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.”
“Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.”
“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.”
“There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.”
“To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.”
“Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.”
“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.”
“The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.”
“I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.”
“There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.”
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”
“I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.”
“Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.”
“Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.”
“In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.”
“Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.”
“My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.”
“My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.”
“I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.”