Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.
I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
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.
If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.
Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent.
I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.