Quotes About Support

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.

The best thing I probably do is - I'll say I'm a pretty darn good parent. I got good kids.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

So often, when somebody dies in the family, whether a child or a parent, there is no one to lean on. When something like that happens, you go into a shell, but on the other hand, it's a really good thing to talk it over and say how you feel.

It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.

When a child is out of control, he or she needs you, the parent, to make them feel safe.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

Being a parent is very important to me.

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.