Quotes About Guidance

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

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

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 became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.

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

Being a parent is not an easy job, which is why we try to create cartoons parents know are safe for their kids.

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've got a really serious side to me, and I think that's the balance you have to have. Get on your kids' level, but at any point in time, let them know who the parent is.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

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.

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.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

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.

The way that you parent, you ease into every stage.