Top 100 Quotes About Parenting
#1. We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.
John S.C. Abbott
#2. Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.
Wylie Dufresne
#4. Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
Haim G. Ginott
#6. This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#7. Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. Many parents now believe outdoor play is verboten even when it is not; perception is nine-tenths of the law.
Richard Louv
#8. The challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in.
Gretchen Carlson
#9. The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad
aka the Fun-Sucker
as opposed to being a friend.
James Patterson
#10. The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can't see beyond trying to make a baby, and they never stop to think about what it will really be like once said baby has in fact, arrived.
Karen Fowler
#11. The issue isn't
nor should it ever be
how weak our child is, but rather how strong our God is.
Tim Kimmel
#12. Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
Clive Owen
#13. I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Phyllis Diller
#14. Treat sins that your children struggle with like basic math. Practice, Practice, and you'll get it.
Rachel Jankovic
#15. Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.
John Kasich
#16. A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.
Ariana Franklin
#17. If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
Neil Gaiman
#18. If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
John Holt
#19. When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#20. I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.
Zach Cregger
#21. Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat predictable flow and offer relatively short-term feedback. This leads to internal comparisons to the improvisational nature of parenting
Jennifer Senior
#22. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
#24. Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.
Robin Morgan
#25. My personal philosophy is that, as a parent, it is my job to find that balance of when my child is ready to try something on her own and when she needs help.
Alice Callahan
#26. Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#27. Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
Ron Taffel
#28. He was afraid to pick up the baby. If he touched it, it might bond with him or something. Or he might leave fingerprints all over it.
Judith Arnold
#29. The word indulgent has become a popular catchphrase for dishes we should not eat for health's sake. I never use it to describe food, only poor parenting.
Martha Hall Foose
#30. Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.
Sydney Strand
#31. Define your mantras, your adages, and bear down repetitively
over and over and over!
David R. Wommack
#32. Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.
Peter Gallagher
#33. A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank A. Clark
#34. [A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.
Bill Clegg
#35. Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.
Rick Riordan
#36. When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.
Beverly K. Bachel
#37. Mature, healthy people need other people; they don't isolate themselves ... Needing love isn't being immature. Rather, it gives us the energy we need to go out and slay our dragons.
Henry Cloud
#38. 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
#39. What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?
Bill Watterson
#40. How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Walter Scott
#41. Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.
Dave Eggers
#42. Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.
Robert Breault
#43. Health is the ability to be fully and consciously aware of all that contributes to your life experience and to effectively exist in that environment. It then means you see yourself as you really are.
Rand Olson
#44. ... the kids, they took us places we never would have gone to on our own. Some times were great... some times were wretched... And there was still no guarantee, no bulletproof glass, safety net, steel-toed boots, anything at all that would promise more good moments... so was it enough? It was.
Mary J. Koral
#45. And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
Sydney J. Harris
#46. It is not about how much activity we are capable of doing but how we are performing the activity that makes the difference.
Colleen Mariotti
#47. The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
Jan Blaustone
#48. 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
#49. One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#50. As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
Jim Gaffigan
#51. But there's a small percentage who are nothing but born predators. And for them, no amount of good parenting, quality schooling, or therapy sessions will ever make a bit of difference.
Marcia Clark
#52. 0Cross-gender behaviour is seen as less acceptable in boys than it is in girls: unlike the term 'tomboy' there is nothing positive implied by its male counterpart, the 'sissy'.
Cordelia Fine
#53. When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
Robert Evans
#54. You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.
Lisa Gardner
#55. Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time
Kevin Heath
#57. A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?
Liz Becker
#58. It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
Anne Lamott
#59. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.
Kelly Corrigan
#61. My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.
Irene Tomkinson
#62. The world's greatest changes are made at home.
Wes Fesler
#63. I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.
Stephen King
#64. All the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort. [Paraphrasing Carol Dweck, a psychologist who studies motivation]
Daniel Coyle
#65. If I never point out the sin and struggle in the hearts of my children, and merely direct their behavior to please me, then when will they know they need a Savior?
Kara Tippetts
#66. If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life.
Rand Olson
#67. Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.
Joan Rivers
#68. From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.
Wes Fesler
#69. Leah: I want those gubs Mommy.
Kate: They're not 'gubs' they're 'gloves'
Aaden and Leah try and say gloves
Leah: Gloves!
Kate: Good job!
Aaden: Gubs!
Kate: No
Kate Gosselin
#70. Speaking of messy, I recently quit parenting. I do not parent in August. August parenting is not a good look for me. It's hotter than hell, and the children and I have already had a whole lot of togetherness.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#71. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#72. Unsatisfied parents produce professionally successful but personally discontent children.
Himmilicious
#73. Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
Thomas Szasz
#74. Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.
Stephen Mangan
#75. People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.
Marc Maron
#76. Parents often yell and nag, instead of allowing their children to reap the natural consequences of their behavior. Parenting with love and limits, with warmth and consequences, produces confident children who have a sense of control over their lives.
Henry Cloud
#77. When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn't know whether to celebrate with champagne ... or hemlock.
Len Filppu
#78. The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.
Ben Marcus
#79. The best parents aren't the ones who know everything. They're the ones who are willing to learn.
Noah Kempler
#80. Children close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to example.
Even New Genx Moms close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to realize their mistakes eventually.
Think, Act Wise before it's Late.
Ilaxi Patel
#81. Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.
Liz Becker
#82. Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!
Kathleen Silber
#83. The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.
Andrew Zolli
#84. Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
Jenna Morasca
#85. The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
Ewan McGregor
#86. There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.
George R R Martin
#87. Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.
Dan Alatorre
#88. I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.
Steffi Graf
#89. I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#90. Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!
Kevin Heath
#91. Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.
Nancy Rose
#92. While we believe we hold the power to raise our children, the reality is that our children hold the power to raise us into the parents they need us to become. For this reason, the parenting experience isn't one of parent versus child but of parent with child.
Anonymous
#93. Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will always be the biggest influence in a child's life.
Ron Baratono
#94. Mad at me. For Dad, parenting has become just like shooting one of his stupid insurance ads-some makeup to cover the blemishes, a flashy smile, and wham! He's got himself a regular picture-perfect family.
Holly Schindler
#96. If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
Jeannette Walls
#97. Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is ...
Carew Papritz
#98. You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.
Benjamin Lotter
#99. I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
Emily Oster
#100. Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?
Archibald Marwizi
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