Top 25 Parenting Teenage Quotes
#1. Trying to understand her teenage daughter's behavior was like trying to listen to a recording of a symphony whose volume vacillated unpredictably from barely audible to deafening. She couldn't hear the music, and all she wanted to do was leave the room.
Sonja Yoerg
#2. Calling a child "rebellious" has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school "stupid." It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tim Kimmel
#4. We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
John Sculley
#5. Parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond.
Danielle Monsch
#6. When he is not broken, Raphael said, he is a shooting star caught midfall.
Nalini Singh
#7. If you want to get a sensual thunderbolt then you have got to be cocked, locked and ready to rock, doc. I find that whole milk and lots of Vitamin D help.
Ted Nugent
#8. I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones
I had a childhood.
Carolyn Byers Ruch
#9. I don't want illusions. I'm tired of feeling like I'm in a dream from which I can never awaken.
Lauren DeStefano
#10. You and Dad are really the wrecking ball of all of our teenage runaway fantasies. Why couldn't you jerks go and be crack addicts or religious fanatics so we could have excuses to live on the wide open road? - email from Lily
Candace Allan
#12. I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
Anne Lamott
#14. You make that climb, take it step by step and hopefully the view is great. I try to be a friend for Miley. I know that's not everyone's parenting style. But I try to be a friend, a partner as a singer, actor, songwriter and let her be a teenage girl and do her thing.
Billy Ray Cyrus
#15. 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.
Amy Chua
#16. While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
Jane Fonda
#18. I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
Barbara Kingsolver
#19. Our Lord never dictated to His Father, and we are not here to dictate to God; we are here to submit to His will so that He may work through us what He wants. When we realise this, He will make us broken bread and poured-out wine to feed and nourish others.
Oswald Chambers
#20. Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them.
Charles Dickens
#21. Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.
Randy Alcorn
#22. Some of your children's rebellion against your spiritual lifestyle might be a necessary step in their finding an authentic relationship with God. But beware: If they find it, it might look quite different from what you've always thought it should be.
Tim Kimmel
#23. I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.
John Leguizamo
#24. Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.
Ana Monnar
#25. You're brave and not very bright, which is the key to success.
Ursula Vernon
