Parenting Quotes

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.

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.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

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.

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.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

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.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

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.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

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.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

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.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.