No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
You can't judge your parenting by the choices of your kids.
My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids.
I try to give my kids everything I never had.
When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.
Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.
You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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