Modern Parenting Quotes

#1. The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, There is no folk wisdom.

Jennifer Senior

#2. three ways to improve your team's motive-based trust in you: self-disclosure, demonstrating fairness, and acting with integrity.

Tasha Eurich

#3. Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

George Pelecanos

#4. The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

Richard Linklater

#5. It's a travesty for the games. It's cutting into the heart of this community.

Mike Dunlap

#6. It's a commonplace of parenting and modern genetics that parents have little or no influence on the characters of their children. You never know who you are going to get.

Ian McEwan

#7. Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

Stephen King

#8. We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.

Warren Buffett

#9. Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family.

Aida Turturro

#10. Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. Please, I know nothing of the world, except my father is lost in it.

Gregory Maguire

#12. Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

Mark Twain

#13. 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.

George Will

#14. Oftentimes I felt ridiculous giving my seal of approval to what was in reality such a natural thing to do, sort of like reinventing the wheel and extolling its virtues. Had parents' intuition sunk so low that some strange man had to tell modern women that it was okay to sleep with their babies?

William Sears

#15. My rugrats give me gifts that say "#1 Mom" on them and I'm like, bwhahahahaha, joke's on you, I'm more like the #1,297,279 Mom. But they truly think I'm the best mom on earth. And that's all that matters.

Karen Alpert

#16. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

Queen Latifah

#17. When you see the suffering inside yourself, you can see the suffering in the other person, and you can see your part, your responsibility, in creating the suffering in yourself and in the other person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#18. Calling her mother who didn't seem particularly worried, but claimed she had no idea," Jett said. "The roommate's gone with her, so I can only

J.C. Reed

#19. Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

George F. Will

#20. Human beings weren't designed to handle the amount of stress our modern life loads on us, which makes it difficult to hear our natural parenting instincts. It's almost as if we're forced to parent in our spare time, after meeting the demands of work, commuting and household responsibilities.

Laura Markham