Parenting Quotes

It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren't a perfect parent.

He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?

I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.

Setting boundaries isn't an alternative to loving your child. It is a means of loving her.

Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more than you do her mediocre, stumbling parts.

My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.

I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.

A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent.

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

At least grandmas don't look for angles like other people. Jo

We may not have had the same experiences as other parents, but I’m okay with that now.

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides.

I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.

As women, we'd be exponentially lighter if we'd sort through some of our emotional clutter... We need to dispose of the crud that we no longer need. Excerpt from essay #3 "What's in my Purse?

In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That, and the concept of "Me time".

Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

You cannot stop loving your child because you know that he has committed a wrong action. But you certainly stop loving yourself for loving him. ~ Rudransh Kashyap

People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie. ~ Mrigank Kashyap

I am not in the entertainment business. I don't give a damn if it was spectacular or not. I want cause and effect.

I went because the nights are numbered and I do not know the count.

It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever.

[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.

Pulling at the hem of my emotion was the creeping sense that it might well take until 2036 for this child in my arms to feel a fraction of what I already felt for her.

It's easy to love kids who make you feel competent.

I believe that many sacrifices need to be made in order to do your best as a parent, but I also believe you don't have to abandon your whole life.

If you feel judged by others, remember that they don't live in your house at night, and they don't care for your child. You do, and you are capable of doing the right thing for your child.

Treat sins that your children struggle with like basic math. Practice, Practice, and you'll get it.

Mostly good is enough. Mostly good produces healthy kids who know they are valued and either forget the other parts or turn them into funny stories.

My personal philosophy is that, as a parent, it is my job to find that balance of when my child is ready to try something on her own and when she needs help.

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion

If you can't do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing!

During childhood, it’s about trying to help develop who your kid’s going to be. During adolescence, it’s about responding to who your kid wants to be.

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

And they certainly wouldn’t take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting.

children need love most when they don't deserve it

Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one.

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

What is success, after all, but doing what you really want to do?

Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.

It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.

Like I tell our kids, 'Your Mom isn't always right and I'm not always right. But together, WE'RE ALWAYS right!