Parenting Quotes

Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Parenting needs to come to the forefront.

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?

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.

I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting.

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.

Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.

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.

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

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.

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.

Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.

Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?

Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.

I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

Loving families value effort as much as success.

A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.

From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support

The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.