Parenting Quotes: Nurturing the Journey of Parenthood
The Extraordinary Path of Parenthood
Parenting is a remarkable journey filled with love, joy, challenges, and growth. It is a transformative role that shapes not only the lives of children but also the hearts and minds of parents. It is a constant balancing act of nurturing, guiding, and learning, as we strive to create a nurturing environment and help our children thrive. In this article, we celebrate the profound experience of parenting and present a collection of insightful quotes that capture its essence.
Parenting is a lifelong commitment that requires patience, resilience, and unconditional love. It is a journey of self-discovery, where we learn as much from our children as they learn from us. It is through the challenges and joys of parenthood that we witness the miracle of growth, the power of connection, and the boundless potential within each child.
Words of Wisdom: Quotes that Illuminate Parenthood
Throughout history, parents, writers, and influential figures have shared their wisdom and reflections on the transformative journey of parenting. Their words offer insights, inspiration, and a reminder of the profound impact parents have on the lives of their children. Below, we present a collection of heartfelt parenting quotes that touch upon the joys, struggles, and unconditional love that define the parent-child relationship.
The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.
Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than ‘Jeopardy!’
I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt.
As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you’re doing the best you can, and God bless.
Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.
You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.
My whole thing with parenting, even though this is my first time, I want to just put five or six objects on the floor – a trumpet, a piano, some dancing or a computer or whatever it is, and just see what he picks up.
If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what ‘good’ parenting means.
Here’s a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.
Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.
My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.
The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I’ve grown up with is tough but also very freeing.
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.
In parenthood, there’s so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there’s so much fear around technology.
Much is written about parenting – its joys and tribulations – and then about the transition into hot flushes, night sweats and (if we’re lucky) a new life as a grandmother.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
The unconditional love for you child, it’s truly amazing.
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, ‘I want to improve my parenting – let’s see how the chimps do it!’
I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
Some have said that ‘Frankenstein’ is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.
I’m trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids’ yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.
The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we’ve never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father’s view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you’re used to one stage, they zoom into another.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
My parenting philosophy pretty much boils down to this: I love my kids; I tolerate yours. Mine just make common, age-appropriate mistakes – phases, let’s call them – while your kids are completely undisciplined and probably need counseling.
Very often when you see families it’s all perfect and neat, and parenting isn’t like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don’t need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.
Parenting isn’t just parenting your own child.
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.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage – everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.
Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.
I think parenting is very different now. We’re totally governed by our children!
The desire to keep television out of our son’s life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed on from the beginning. We debated the pros and cons of co-sleeping, of pacifiers, of chemical-free crib mattresses and baby sign language. The television question, on the other hand, was a no-brainer.
I’m hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.
I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
There’s this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you’re never enough. If you’re confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.
Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.
I adore my family. I don’t love their politics. I think they’re wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious – it’s almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It’s not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you’re five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.
You hear so much awful stuff before you have a kid, like you’ll never sleep again, we always knew it would be utter garbage. We’re pretty relaxed people, the less stressed you are the more easy you’ll find parenting.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Indeed – judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.
As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn’t matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife’s Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn’t because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
In her second career as a minister, my mother defied a legacy of chauvinism to become a leader of our community, overseeing a church that served as a hub, offering parenting classes, a food pantry, after-school programming, and – in the wake of Hurricane Katrina – a lifeline to those ravaged by loss.
Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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.
We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
As a mother living in poverty, I don’t expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.
Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I’m not working I’m cool with the Teletubbies.
Whether I’m running, working, relating, parenting, learning – whatever I’m doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.
How my parents are in the kitchen is a good indicator of their parenting style. Mum cooks for sustenance, wants to get in and out, the job done quickly. My Dad wants to prance around in the kitchen, create a curry – and a mess – and entertain everyone.
I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
The way I was parented did affect my parenting – probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.
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.
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.
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
There’s nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it ‘jazz parenting.’
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don’t feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.
I’m not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges – which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity.
I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I’ve been on my own, parenting myself.
As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It’s like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules.
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
In response to our fast-food culture, a ‘slow food’ movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.
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.
I’m not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show ‘Portlandia.’ My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we’re often participants.
Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
I’m doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.
Cohabitation itself doesn’t cause ineffective parenting.
A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.
I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as ‘Good Morning America,’ so this is – you know, it’s almost like I’m less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I’m just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.
Somebody once told me I treated my smart phone like Wilson, the volleyball Tom Hanks turns into a friend when he’s stranded on a desert island in that movie ‘Castaway.’ It’s an apt comparison: parenting a toddler occasionally feels like being marooned, and your phone is your only connection to the rest of the world.
I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.
When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.
I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple – that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn’t to me at the time.
I do think that there’s an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.
My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.
Whatever needed to be done, I need to know how to do it just as well as my wife. You know, for us to be able to really balance the parenting. It was very humbling, and it was also, um – terrifying. Because, you know, giving a baby a bath for the first time is one of the scariest things you can do on this whole earth.
Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.
I have three daughters, so I can’t be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids – especially daughters – they know how to work you. They’re a lot smarter than we are, that’s for sure. But I’ll be more tough on their boyfriends.
You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you’re the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.
I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can’t think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.
I’ve met many rich kids over the years. Many are very down to earth and work hard; they come from decent parenting. Others, however, are not.
The parenting books didn’t work for me; I got my parenting lessons from everything but the books! And it was about figuring things out. So every time I had a thought, I would put down my conclusions and thoughts.
My daughter’s position in our household is definitely higher than mine. I listen to her a lot. I guess you can say that’s my parenting style.
My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
I had a pretty well-adjusted style of parenting. I think my parents were very young, very open. I think I learned many things from them: etiquette and grace, compassion and charity. And who I am today is due to a lot of attributes of my parents.
Leave part of the yard rough. Don’t manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.
People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it’s not something that they’re up for, and I don’t know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.
In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like – parenting is far more challenging.
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.
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I’m really a paddler on a beach.
Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.
We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, ‘This isn’t the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.’ When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can’t seem to stop ourselves.
Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren’t equal, and that doesn’t help anyone.
A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.
A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, ‘How am I supposed to raise my child?’ Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.
Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children’s lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do.
Certainly, workers in many industries do not have the privilege of being able to balance parenting at the workplace, and we must fight especially hard to support working parents in low-wage jobs.
Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There’s no sense of something earned. I’m sorry, but when you’re 12, you don’t need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Being a chef isn’t the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids’ lives as much as possible.
People ask me how I’ve raised three children as a single parent but honestly, parenting has been a breeze.
If two very different people pool their DNA, they’ll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.
From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.
I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it’s because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting.
There is a lot of parenting that’s completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn’t talk to someone, you would flip out – you know what I mean?
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
It’s hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children’s book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That’s what parenting is: You’re not there for yourself; you’re there for your offspring and everyone else around you.
The children who are ‘our future’ will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.
I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they’re the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.
I suppose it’s amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.
Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.
Parenting is different for everybody.
Some men don’t want to be responsible fathers. It’s easier to say ‘Let’s just turn the kids over to the state.’ Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.
Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
It’s hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
I am no expert on parenting.
The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his need’ is the family’s practice as well as its theory. Even with today’s scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.
We will never achieve equality in the workplace until we have more equality in the home. Our plans for an extra four weeks of parental leave specifically for fathers will help tackle the assumption that parenting is one of the ‘girl jobs’.
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror – robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you’d be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.
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.
I’m a parent, especially when you’ve had the intense parenting the way I had. It’s all in the bank. It’s all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That’s the stuff that makes your work rich, that’s what you dip into.
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
My approach to parenting is that everything is open – everything. I’m not very good at covert, or subtle, and I’ve had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
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.
If you’re financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.
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?
Once you’ve taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn’t add much information.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he advocated limiting the reach of the landmark 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying certain parenting rights to same-sex couples.
For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black’s tweets.
No, I’ve never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.
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.
The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don’t have to compromise one for the other.
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn’t really about disapproval; it’s about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
I love, love, love being an actor – it’s still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I’ve always been someone who likes a busy day.
I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he’s genuinely interested in what she’s going through.
America’s parenting customs can shock foreigners.
Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.
Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
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.
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.
Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other.
Autism is a neurological disorder. It’s not caused by bad parenting. It’s caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain’s computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.
Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.
As I started parenting, I realised there is no formula to it.
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?
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.
As a father you’re guilty until proven innocent. You’re a second class citizen in terms of parenting. As a father you have to prove your ability to be a father whilst residence, power and control is left solely with the mother.
There’s no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, ‘We’re gonna have to clean that up because you don’t paint with coffee on a table.’
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 approach to parenting is the same as my approach to life: it’s all about putting in the hours and working hard.
Parenting is tough.
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.
Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it’s much more complicated than that.
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him – he didn’t try to be our best friend.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the ’90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together… something we don’t spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
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?
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.
I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It’s that this lie that they’re being told by society that parenting is one thing – and when parenting is something completely different – that’s what makes them unhappy.
I don’t think my music is that big of a deal – my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make records and go off and play shows is a small percentage of my day-to-day existence.
Should kids check phones at dinner? I don’t know. To me, that’s a parenting choice.
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Parenting is a sensitive, controversial subject, so I say to all the mommas and the daddies of the world God bless and good luck!
In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
I’m torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble – myself included – as fathers get older.
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.
I might be at the odd press conference with a little bit of spill on me because I’m not going to hide the imperfections of parenting. I don’t think anyone needs that.
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don’t have the answers. We are at a loss.
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.
People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith.
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.
The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they’re proud of.
Parenting is a learning process.
My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It’s something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.
Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.
Everyone’s generation probably feels like they’re parenting in a better way.
Today’s new age parenting guarantees you’ll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.
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.
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.
Childhood is a short season.
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that.
The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn’t been able to keep up.
The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.
All children will do things that you may not want them to. That’s part of parenting.
In conclusion, parenting is a sacred journey that calls upon us to nurture, guide, and cherish the lives entrusted to us. As we navigate the beautiful complexities of parenthood, may these parenting quotes serve as guiding lights, reminding us of the profound impact we have on our children’s lives. Let us embrace the joys, overcome the challenges, and cultivate a bond of love, respect, and understanding with our children. Remember, parenting is a gift, and the love we pour into our children will shape them and create a brighter future for generations to come.
