Parenting Quotes

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

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.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

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.

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.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

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 take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

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.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

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 family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.