Parenting Quotes and Sayings (365 quotes)

David Frost motivational quote : Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means. Fred Rogers

Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place. GloZell

Being a teenager is hard. Mae Whitman

Kids are fat because of lack of parenting. Ben Shapiro

Ian Dunbar

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. Jim Harrison

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too. Chelsea Clinton

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. Jane D. Hull

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P. J. O'Rourke

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book. Bruce Feiler

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've met many rich kids over the years. Many are very down to earth and work hard; they come from decent parenting. Others, however, are not. Jesse Spencer

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. Stevie Nicks

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Michele Bachmann

In many ways, I don't think journalism is any different from banking. And I don't think that banking is any different from parenting. Stephanie Ruhle

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us. Yolanda Hadid

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. Ayelet Waldman

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. Nadia Boulanger

Polly Berrien Berends

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict. Amy Chua

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists. Andrew Solomon

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

I think one of the other myths is that your environment determines your happiness. That if you are living with an alcoholic or living with a depressed spouse for a long time, you are just going to be unhappy. Gary Chapman

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it. Amy Chua

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

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

For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family. Anna Getty

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. Brene Brown

Virginia Satir

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions. Hanna Rosin

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. Red Skelton

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

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. Norma Shearer

Joyce Meyer

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

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. Muriel Spark

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me. Farah Khan

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. Jackie Kennedy

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies. June Allyson

I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith. Jodi Benson

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. Cindy Crawford

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways. Dennis Miller

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. Robert Cormier

Marcelene Cox

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive. Angela Duckworth

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage. Rob Delaney

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities. Kalki Koechlin

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted. Eleanor Roosevelt

Helen Fisher

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. Liam Neeson

Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone. Christine Tsai

Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other. Stephanie Coontz

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage. Mika Brzezinski

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it. Essie Davis

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. Laura Schlessinger

Much is written about parenting - its joys and tribulations - and then about the transition into hot flushes, night sweats and (if we're lucky) a new life as a grandmother. Kate Garraway

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

Juhi Chawla

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles. Carol S. Dweck

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety. Robert Evans

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean? Rosemarie DeWitt

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style. Mayim Bialik

I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed. Holly Marie Combs

Shakira

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids. Clive Owen

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. Martin Mull

Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat. Adam Mansbach

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. Robert Casey

Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that. Rza

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. Steven Spielberg

My father was the biggest influence on my own parenting because I became the complete opposite to him. He found it very difficult to show physical love, like cuddling and that kind of stuff, so I went the other way. Keith Allen

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

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting. Amy Chua

Ranvir Shorey

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings. Hugh Jackman

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

I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects. Kourtney Kardashian

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible. Suze Orman

Eddie Vedder

You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do. Stephen Curry

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

I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it's because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting. Gong Yoo

In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology. Rosemarie DeWitt

I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's really important that's a problem, like alcoholism and bad parenting. It's done in a funny, smart way. Justin Chatwin

A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting. Clyde Edgerton

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. Evan Bayh

Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work. Carl Honore

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

Angela Duckworth

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. Todd Tiahrt

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that. Essie Davis

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. Alan Thicke

I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day. Sarah Jessica Parker

Don Willett

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. Mayim Bialik

My children have never brought any shame upon their father. They have been independent children, my children. Halldor Laxness

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way. David Sheff

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