Parenting Quotes

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

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.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there's a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem.

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties.

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.