We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

Children listen - intently. They absorb all manner of information like little sponges.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool...

The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I think she empowered me to have the same drive.

I care about our employees more than anybody in my company. I care about my kids, too, but that doesn't mean I give them everything that they want.

Fatherhood, parenthood, is something that completely overwhelms you and absorbs you, and you just have to be the best dad that you can be.

We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking about the tiny things that add up to caring human beings.

One thing I can say about a blended family is that they work the best when all agree on how they're going to co-parent.

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.'

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just...

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids.

Tennis parents and stage mothers should take note. The kid has got to want to do it, not just to please the parent, but for himself.

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.

I have the means to spoil my kids with whatever they want, but I choose not to because they have to understand the value of hard work.

Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this....

I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is...

As a child, I was always getting into risky situations with the potential to hurt myself, but mum and dad never stopped me doing what I wanted to do, and they assumed that if I fell and hurt myself, I...

Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times. That just made it more attractive to me.

My parents never let me have everything.

I don't feel like a dad but my kids know I'm a dad.

I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very free life. It's interesting for me as a filmmaker to show a whole...

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

When we talk about kids earning commission for chores, we always have at least one parent who argues that children should do chores because they are part of the family. I agree, but if you don't...

People always have something to say about how long is too long or not long enough to breastfeed. I think this is such a personal decision that it can only be made between each baby and his or her...