Parenting Is Hard Quotes

#1. Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

Sarah Clarke

#2. I realize parenting is hard and boring at times and a four-hour break would be super, but this is the job we signed up for. Some days it sucks, but most days it's great.

Jen Mann

#3. 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.

Brene Brown

#4. I like pineapple. It's delightful.

Sarah Drew

#5. COPE

Create Options Pending Emergence

Kamil Ali

#6. Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage ... Do something - anything - to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest significance. It is your legacy. - Andy Kerckhoff, from Critical Connection

Andy Kerckhoff

#7. When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard.

Jim Gaffigan

#8. My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

John H. Johnson

#9. The symptoms of executive skills problems are generic enough that it is sometimes hard for people to see them as other than just bad behavior or signs of poor parenting.

Joyce Cooper-Kahn

#10. I would burn down the world for you," he whispered fiercely. "Your world or my own. I would rip down the entire city with my bare hands without a second thought. I don't need to taste anything else, I don't need a comparison.

Delilah S. Dawson

#11. You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

Paul Westphal

#12. They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it
when I have children of my own. They say I would understand it when I go through the experience myself.

It is not easy to raise children into adults. There are so many things that could go wrong.

Marcella Purnama

#13. 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.

Kamisese Mara

#14. Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*

Bing Gordon

#15. Look at my face. Does it look like I can take a good hit?

Ronda Rousey

#16. But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

Steven D. Levitt

#17. Over time, parents have barnacled the most routine activities in infancy with their own preoccupations. It's sometimes hard to see the baby for all the barnacles.

Nicholas Day

#18. Raising PERFECT children is not hard ...
It's IMPOSSIBLE !!!!!

K.j. Force

#19. You are doing a wonderful job. Parenting is mind-numbingly hard and no one is perfect at it and we'll all jack a thousand parts, yet somehow, against all odds, it will be enough.

Jen Hatmaker

#20. Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It's everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012).

Jill Smokler

#21. How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Edwin Way Teale

#22. The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

John Lennon

#23. A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

James Mangold

#24. 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.

Patricia Heaton

#25. I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

Natalie Cole

#26. It gives the guys confidence and self-belief. Two or three years ago I think we would have lost it. The confidence that we have, we can actually nail it.

Kieran Crowley

#27. This is what parenting involved: hard decisions. She was his mother, she reminded herself. He didn't have to like her.

Paula Daly

#28. The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

Benjamin Spock

#29. Letting go is hard for me. I have spent too many anxious moments and sleepless nights in worry over what would happen if I let go. Much like being part of a search-and-rescue effort, I would find myself always searching for the unexpected spins in life while preparing to rescue the outcome.

Eve M. Harrell

#30. Be fair. Play hard.

Dan Venezia

#31. No one said parenting was easy,but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard.

Gillian Duce

#32. In our commitment to raise healthy, conscious children and create a healthy world, it is hard to understand how people can choose to spend money for something that not only does not work, but poisons humans and the environment.

Gabriel Cousens M.D.

#33. Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.

Switchfoot

#34. I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.

Anne Lamott

#35. In these hard moments, I must remember that much of my parenting and training results in invisible seeds in my child's heart instead of immediate changed behavior.

Amber Lia

#36. Decoding (a child's difficult) behavior is like looking at a rain wrapped tornado crossing the road in front of you. You see the fury of rain, hail, wind and debris, but you have to look real hard to see the driving force behind it.

Deborah A. Beasley

#37. I'm male. You rubbed your ... femaleness all over me. I didn't think. I reacted.

Tessa Dare

#38. Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

David Duchovny

#39. The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.

Ronald Reagan

#40. Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

Zig Ziglar