Top 100 Quotes About Parenting
#1. In its original Latin form, sacrifice means to make sacred or to make holy. I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred.
Brene Brown
#2. Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
Nancy Chodorow
#3. We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
James E. Faust
#4. Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
Ewan McGregor
#5. Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.
Lewis Black
#6. A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.
Clyde Edgerton
#7. I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.
Kourtney Kardashian
#8. I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
Mayim Bialik
#9. Nothing that doesn't push you past your limits can change your life. It's true of work, it's true of parenting, and it's true - a hundred times over - of love.
Katherine Center
#10. Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Robert Casey
#11. Parenting needs to come to the forefront.
Bill Cosby
#12. Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?
Lisa Kleypas
#13. Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.
Tim Kimmel
#14. Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.
Dan Pearce
#15. As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!
Jim George
#16. Why would a vampire create a younger vampire if there was a possibility the young one might end up destroying the old one?'
Stephin stared. 'If you can explain to me how this is different from parenting in general I might know how to answer that.
Adam Rex
#17. In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.
Martin Jacques
#18. Parenting is the most important profession in the world.
John Wooden
#19. Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will be more attached to you.
Sarah Ruhl
#20. My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
Robbie Coltraine
#21. Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
Ann Voskamp
#22. In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
Shawn Amos
#23. My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
Bill Cosby
#24. (About parenting ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
Anne Tyler
#25. The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
Bill O'Reilly
#26. It quickly becomes clear that having a child in France doesn't require choosing a parenting philsophy.
Pamela Druckerman
#27. Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.
Misha Collins
#28. We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.
Joycelyn Elders
#29. Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.
Nora Ephron
#30. Attitudes of optimism, of "let them be", and of joy in watching and helping another life develop and blossom will help parents relish their parenting role and will provide the resilience necessary to navigate turbulent times.
Timothy Carey
#31. I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
Mayim Bialik
#32. A concern with parenting ... must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.
Nancy Chodorow
#35. He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings ... " He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.
Nick Hornby
#36. In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
Padma Lakshmi
#37. Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.
Dan Savage
#38. Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear.
Edward T. Welch
#39. SOME OF THE HARDEST parts of parenting never change - like sleep deprivation, which, according to researchers at Queen's University in Ontario, can in some respects impair our judgment as much as being legally drunk. (There's something wonderfully vindicating about this analogy.)
Jennifer Senior
#40. My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.
Christie Brinkley
#41. Parent to glorify God, not to get your child to behave. God's sovereignty is the foundation of parenting and His glory its highest purpose.
Linda J. Rice
#42. What are we seeing here? One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles that we talked about in the Chris Langan chapter. Think back to Alex Williams, the nine-year-old whom Annette Lareau studied.
Malcolm Gladwell
#43. Parents need to be lucky to be good in parenting; children have to be lucky to have great parents!
Amit Chatterjee
#44. Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
Dennis Miller
#45. Sometimes to be a good parent ... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.
Daniel Pearce
#46. I didn't really know anything about Romany culture going into this [Glue series]. The one thing that I liked the most about it is that it's so family based. They don't have mothers and fathers in the same way we do. They're really in a community, so parenting is shared between the community.
Yasmin Paige
#47. Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.
Jean Ashworth Bartle
#48. This communal parenting brought me out of the privacy of our foreign enclave and into the public life of the community. Here, parenting was everyone's responsibility; all adults were "aunties" and "uncles".
Aminta Arrington
#49. It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
Adam Mansbach
#50. Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
Alfie Kohn
#51. They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I saw it, was to watch television and step into a child's life only when absolutely necessary, like in the event of a tornado or a potential kidnapping.
Haven Kimmel
#52. We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.
Jennifer Hudson
#53. People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.
Meghan Daum
#55. Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.
Bill Ayers
#56. We do not raise our children alone ... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.
Richard Louv
#57. Narcissism is very much a "disorder of superficiality." Given that the entire world is trending towards greater superficiality in all endeavors - work, school, parenting, and love - the narcissists' propensity toward superficiality no longer seems that unusual.
Ramani Durvasula
#58. That is the flip side, you see, to laissez-faire parenting. It succeeds or not, throughout the animal kingdom as it does with humans, in direct relationship to the strength of the offspring. Some of us don't need very much. Some of us need a lot.
Cynthia Rogers Parks
#59. The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.
Kelly Bartlett
#60. I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
Barry Humphries
#61. There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.
Jim Rohn
#62. 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
#63. My parenting style could be described as not good cop or bad cop so much as nervous cop. I'm always yelling for somebody to stop because they're about to get hurt. I'm the take a jacket, slow down guy.
Paul Reiser
#64. Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.
Sarah Clarke
#65. Since Jeannie is a big believer in attachment parenting and I'm a spineless coward, we have instituted an open-door policy, meaning if one of our kids has a nightmare, they are welcome to come in our room and pee in our bed. Luckily this only happens every night.
Jim Gaffigan
#66. Diplomacy, Democracy, and parenting are very much the same. It's an act of creating and maintaining control over people without them becoming aware of it while rousing their allegiance through fear or manipulation to protect your right to continue taking advantage of them and their loyalty.
Mitch Alexander
#67. 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
#68. Parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.
Stacy Schiff
#69. The time we are given for parenting is so short, passes so quickly and is jumbled up with so many other priorities and disruptions that, in the end, we come to doubt that we used it in the best interests of our children.
Bryce Courtenay
#70. It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
Anthony Edwards
#71. I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
Pat Conroy
#72. I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.
Lisa Whelchel
#73. Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
Ian Dunbar
#74. When the French need a solution to a particular problem, they tend to consult one source, not fifteen different friends or chat-room chums. This has the effect of cutting down on anxiety - and does wonders for just about every aspect of parenting.
Catherine Crawford
#75. To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.
Carl Honore
#76. The joy of motherhood comes in moments ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.
M. Russell Ballard
#77. One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because ... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.
Brene Brown
#78. 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
#79. While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short.
Daniel J. Siegel
#80. The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.
Emily Oster
#81. Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.
Ben Shapiro
#82. It still amazes me that we insist on teaching algebra to all students when only about 20 percent will ever use it and fail to teach anything about parenting when the vast majority of our students will become parents.
Nel Noddings
#83. My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.
Chelsea Clinton
#84. The First Rule of Parenting states that you never wake a peacefully sleeping child.
David Mitchell
#85. The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
Brene Brown
#86. My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children's need for parenting.
Margot Page
#87. And the reason parenting is becoming increasingly crucial is that we now live in a world that is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.
Dennis Miller
#88. The central focus of parenting is the gospel. You need to direct not simply the behavior of your children, but the attitudes of their hearts.
Tedd Tripp
#89. When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
Ariel Gore
#90. I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
Hector Elizondo
#91. Robin Simon, a sociology professor at Florida State University and researcher on parenting and happiness, told The Daily Beast in 20083 that parents experience lower levels of emotional well-being, less frequent positive emotions and more frequent negative emotions than their childless peers.
Jessica Valenti
#92. I loved my father. Most people did. He did try his best. He did provide for his family. He taught me many things and gave me a work ethic that made me who I am today: a guy who would throw his own father under the bus in a book about parenting.
Jim Gaffigan
#93. My parenting success is measured in the two inches my child raises his chin, upon hearing me speak of him.
Garry Fitchett
#94. Luckily, children's memories don't start much before four years of age, which is Mother Nature's way of forgiving parents during those really tough years of parenting small children.
Judy Arnall
#95. 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
#96. We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
Dale Archer
#97. Sometimes it felt like parenting amounted to a series of questionable decisions, one after another.
Megan Abbott
#98. I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#99. If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture.
Neil Postman
#100. You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion.
Robert Fritz
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