Parenting Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

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.

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.

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.

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