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Parenting Quotes
"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
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"My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had."
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"I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there."
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"I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby."
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"I would say that my parents were supportive of me."
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"You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten."
"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."
"So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency."
"My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade."
"What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future."
"My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities."
"I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body."
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
"Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?"
"Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery."
"My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do."
"I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby."
"The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror."
"A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects."
"My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do."
"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
"My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians."
"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John."
"Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice."
"Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence."
"Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have."
"I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure."
"So much is asked of parents, and so little is given."
"The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!"
"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
"I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young."
"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."
"My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7."
"Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer."
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