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I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.

Don't get me wrong. I don't have a problem with anyone being proud to be a parent. I love children, some of my best friends used to be children. But I was fed up of these 'competitions,' so I decided to do the opposite, I decided to do the non-motherhood challenge and post five photos of myself which made me proud not to be a mother.

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

I think any teenager, any single parent household teenager growing up in New York City, will probably go through tumultuous years. I definitely did. It all sort of righted itself once I definitively got on the path of being a musician or, like, following that directly.

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.

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

I've been a young carer, an adult carer and a parent carer.

I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

The drive to be a parent is strong. It's one of the most ingrained human traits there is.

If you look at top players - Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi - so many had a parent who was domineering to the point where you really had to question his sanity. It was nuts.

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.

As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career.

No one likes a pushy parent, and, 'pride' being one of the seven deadly sins, I needed to tread very carefully when creating a show about my eldest son, Tom, better known as Peter Parker and even better known as Marvel's new 'Spider-Man.'

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.