Parenting Quotes

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

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

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?

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.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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

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

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.