Parenting Quotes

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.

I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

The world's greatest changes are made at home.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.

When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

You never put her in your heart.

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.

Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?

successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.