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It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.