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Are there days where I wish I was just at home with my kids? Yeah, most days. But then I look at our accomplishments, and I feel alive; I feel so proud of myself. So it's a very confusing thing to be a working parent.

A co-founder is like being somebody's parent: You want to make sure your offspring thrive.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

Nobody wants to be a bad parent.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.

When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

Being a parent is not an easy job, which is why we try to create cartoons parents know are safe for their kids.

When kids are kids, everything a parent does seems goofy.

I'm a parent, and my kids think I'm an idiot.

The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I'm never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I'm completely aware of their schedule, and they're with someone I trust.

As any parent knows, sharing diaper duty sure beats changing them all yourself.

You have to figure out what works for you as a parent, and it's hard to do everything all at once.