94 Quotes Found
"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."
"For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets."
"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."
"Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have."
"I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older."
"The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up."
"I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people."
"If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press."
"Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up."
"For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer."
"I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything."
"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."
"I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so."
"Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style."
"Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose."
"We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities."
"Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work."
"Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?"
"My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles."
"I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived."
"No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot."
"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."
"Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?"
"Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard, ' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again."
"We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments."
"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."
"I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part."
"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."
"I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze."
"Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways."
"I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community."
"The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!"
"I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting."
"Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth."
"Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments."
"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting."
"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."
"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal."
"My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity."
"There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no, ' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom."
"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies."
"We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free."
"Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice."
"We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?"
"That's my ideal day, time with my boys."
"Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station."
"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings."
"I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence."
"What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp."
"I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up."
"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."
"I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin."
"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play."
"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
"I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real."
"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."
"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."
"Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings."
"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
"If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach."
"The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering."
"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."
"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly."
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
"Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker."
"Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult."
"I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours."
"Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out."
"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
"I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends."
"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."
"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it."
"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
"The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus."
"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."
"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
"At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents."
"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching."
"Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy."
"The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet."
"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."
"Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep."
"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station."
"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
"A mother who is really a mother is never free."
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
"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."
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."