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123 Top Parenting Quotes for better parenting

1. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass
2. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. Sigmund Freud
3. Childhood is a short season. Helen Hayes
4. If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much. Jackie Kennedy
5. 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
6. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll
7. At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents. Jane D. Hull
8. A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. Billy Graham
9. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. Plato
10. Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum
11. Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash
12. Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. Carl Jung
13. We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. Henry Ward Beecher
14. Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. Peter Ustinov
15. Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
16. Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. Red Skelton
17. To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself. James E. Faust
18. Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day. Taylor Hanson
19. Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process. John F. Kennedy
20. Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending. Virginia Satir
21. A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it. Frank A. Clark
22. Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules. Anna Quindlen
23. Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P. J. O’Rourke
24. Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. Denis Waitley
25. My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do. Mitt Romney
26. Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children. Princess Diana
27. 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
28. Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. Garrison Keillor
29. Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. Ron Taffel
30. Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built. James Dobson
31. My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Quentin Crisp
32. The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching. Gilbert Highet
33. You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship. Connie Sellecca
34. How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. Walter Scott
35. My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. Gena Lee Nolin
36. When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity. Rose Kennedy
37. I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real. Reese Witherspoon
38. When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety. Robert Evans
39. Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. Martin Mull
40. 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. Roberto Benigni
41. Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. Miriam Makeba
42. Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. Muriel Spark
43. A mother who is really a mother is never free. Honore de Balzac
44. Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny. Ben Stein
45. Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Erma Bombeck
46. If you’re asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. Caitlyn Jenner
47. The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus. Todd Tiahrt
48. 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
49. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones
50. 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
51. At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. Ellen Key
52. We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up. Christopher Morley
53. Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings. Kelly LeBrock
54. Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. Alvin Toffler
55. Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. Coretta Scott King
56. Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first. Dale Archer
57. If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. Luther Burbank
58. There’s really no point in having children if you’re not going to be home enough to father them. Anthony Edwards
59. 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
60. Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. Bob Filner
61. 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. Kamisese Mara
62. As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job. Roseanne Barr
63. 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. Pauline Phillips
64. Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. Gloria Steinem
65. Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom. Tim Allen
66. The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock
67. No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. Miguel de Cervantes
68. 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? Ellen Goodman
69. The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. Meryl Streep
70. We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. Roy L. Smith
71. Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. Laura Schlessinger
72. 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. Matthew Broderick
73. Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives. Polly Berrien Berends
74. 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
75. Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. John Boehner
76. Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your midsection unprotected. Robert Orben
77. Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. Allan Bloom
78. Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult. David Frost
79. That’s my ideal day, time with my boys. Kenny G
80. Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. P. J. O’Rourke
81. Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. George Bernard Shaw
82. 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. Anne Sullivan
83. Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. Robbie Coltrane
84. The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears. Phil McGraw
85. My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. John H. Johnson
86. 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
87. Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. Doug Larson
88. The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. Benjamin Spock
89. I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. Gloria Swanson To me luxury is to b
90. To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt. Olivia Newton-John
91. What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it. Marlee Matlin
92. I suppose it’s amazing how quick life goes by when you have children. Steffi Graf
93. I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. Norma Shearer
94. Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I’m not working I’m cool with the Teletubbies. Clive Owen
95. I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play. Beverly Cleary
96. I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. Robert Orben
97. 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
98. Having children with someone is the real bond. Francesca Annis
99. What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. Marjorie Holmes
100. I’d just as soon stay home and raise babies. June Allyson
101. The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. Polly Berrien Berends
102. Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. Lynn Johnston
103. The unconditional love for you child, it’s truly amazing. Jourdan Dunn
104. 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. Jill Clayburgh
105. Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. Russell Baker
106. Leave part of the yard rough. Don’t manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes. Richard Louv
107. Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. Christy Turlington
108. I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. Tina Turner
109. 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. Rita Rudner
110. Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. Phyllis Diller
111. My father wasn’t really involved and my mom is the light in my life. Marion Jones
112. 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. Patricia Heaton
113. 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
114. I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. Susie Bright
115. I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he’s genuinely interested in what she’s going through. Harry Connick, Jr.
116. I have three daughters, so I can’t be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids – especially daughters – they know how to work you. They’re a lot smarter than we are, that’s for sure. But I’ll be more tough on their boyfriends. Tim McGraw
117. We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. John Sculley
118. No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. Marcelene Cox
119. There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. Andrew Shue
120. If you’re financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible. Suze Orman
121. Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him – he didn’t try to be our best friend. Stephen Mangan
122. Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
123. I think I’m going to have to live vicariously through my daughter’s rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. Brooke Shields

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

Childhood is a short season.

Helen Hayes

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

Jackie Kennedy

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

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

Charles R. Swindoll

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.

Jane D. Hull

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Billy Graham

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Carl Jung

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Peter Ustinov

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Red Skelton

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

James E. Faust

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

Taylor Hanson

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

John F. Kennedy

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.

Virginia Satir

A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.

Frank A. Clark

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules.

Anna Quindlen

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

P. J. O’Rourke

Read this amazing Parenting Quotes and cherish the moment with your kids.

1	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
2	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
3	As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn’t matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife’s Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights. Jim Gaffigan
4	Kids are fat because of lack of parenting. Ben Shapiro
5	Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents. Joyce Meyer
6	Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn’t parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential. Gordon Neufeld
7	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. Brene Brown
8	Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list. John Kennedy
9	There’s no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, ‘We’re gonna have to clean that up because you don’t paint with coffee on a table.’ Gary Oldman
10	I’m tired but grateful: choosing to blend parenting and public service has made me a more confident mother and a better legislator. Michelle Wu
11	The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult. Ewan McGregor
12	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
13	Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. Jennifer Aniston
14	The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! Louise Hart
15	I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it’s really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people. Ryan Phillippe
16	There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe. Ben Carson
17	Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence – and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself – your self-esteem – is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. Nathaniel Branden
18	Parenting is different for everybody. LaVar Ball
19	To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting. Amy Chua
20	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
21	With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect. Jo Swinson
22	I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting. Barbara Bush
23	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
24	My parenting philosophy pretty much boils down to this: I love my kids; I tolerate yours. Mine just make common, age-appropriate mistakes – phases, let’s call them – while your kids are completely undisciplined and probably need counseling. Colin Cowherd
25	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
26	I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that. Kourtney Kardashian
27	Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children. Kate Middleton
28	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
29	I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable. Robert Winston
30	I might be at the odd press conference with a little bit of spill on me because I’m not going to hide the imperfections of parenting. I don’t think anyone needs that. Jacinda Ardern
31	So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life. Uma Thurman
32	All children will do things that you may not want them to. That’s part of parenting. Carl Hart
33	I gave importance to parenting over everything else and went back to Delhi. Now, when I had to make a comeback, ‘Bigg Boss’ was the best platform to give me that visibility. Rahul Dev
34	I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman’s kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that’s the case, that’s good parenting. Amy Chua
35	I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. Mayim Bialik
36	I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect. Barry Humphries
37	Don’t reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a ‘moral hazard,’ because the bailout absolved the bank’s bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. Eliot Spitzer
38	The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows. Emily Oster
39	The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do. Helena Bonham Carter
40	I think parenting is very different now. We’re totally governed by our children! Andy Serkis
41	Parenting is an impossible job at any age. Harrison Ford
42	Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children. Brene Brown
43	I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960’s, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community. Audre Lorde
44	What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. Virginia Satir
45	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
46	Whatever needed to be done, I need to know how to do it just as well as my wife. You know, for us to be able to really balance the parenting. It was very humbling, and it was also, um – terrifying. Because, you know, giving a baby a bath for the first time is one of the scariest things you can do on this whole earth. Jason Isbell
47	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
48	My whole thing with parenting, even though this is my first time, I want to just put five or six objects on the floor – a trumpet, a piano, some dancing or a computer or whatever it is, and just see what he picks up. Omarion
49	Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line? Amy Chua
50	To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms. Carl Honore

51 Parenting Quotes to Inpire the Parents

1. No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right. Alan Arkin
2. There’s this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you’re never enough. If you’re confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it. Nia Vardalos
3. I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I’m the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties. Cindy Crawford
4. Autism is a neurological disorder. It’s not caused by bad parenting. It’s caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain’s computer cables that hook up the different brain departments. Temple Grandin
5. 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. Jane Fonda
6. Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style. Mayim Bialik
7. My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don’t need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents. Michael Spence
8. You know, parenting is so personal. And we’re all afraid that we didn’t quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we – what if we made a mistake? Amy Chua
9. 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
10. We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn’t fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn’t look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting. Adam Mansbach
11. Parenting is tough. Kate Middleton
12. There’s no one right way to be a person, we’re all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through. Busy Philipps
13. 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
14. Being a chef isn’t the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids’ lives as much as possible. Wylie Dufresne
15. 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
16. Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It’s about being there at big moments, but it’s also just the consistency of decision making. And it’s routine. Sebastian Coe
17. Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up. Jillian Michaels
18. Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his need’ is the family’s practice as well as its theory. Even with today’s scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree. P. J. O’Rourke
19. In response to our fast-food culture, a ‘slow food’ movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. Arlie Russell Hochschild
20. Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. Amy Chua
21. It’s hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children’s book I am mistaken for a parenting expert. Adam Mansbach
22. 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
23. My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud. Angela Duckworth
24. 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
25. 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. Hector Elizondo
26. In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids’ yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing. Shawn Amos
27. Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets. Carl Honore
28. Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it’s also the place we’re most vulnerable. We’re all a little afraid we’re doing it wrong. Glennon Doyle Melton
29. Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called ‘parenting’ is becoming increasingly difficult. Craig T. Nelson
30. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency. Brene Brown
31. I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I’m lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys. Joan Cusack
32. My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It’s something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point. Dan Levy
33. I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’ Bernie Mac
34. Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child’s friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society. GloZell
35. We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. Fred G. Gosman
36. Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it’s a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached. Carl Honore
37. Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian. Shakira
38. 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
39. The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don’t focus on all the steps it will take. Don’t stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step. Regina Brett
40. When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn’t really about disapproval; it’s about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent. Adam Mansbach
41. 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
42. I’m endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage. Rob Delaney
43. I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there’s a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem. Amy Chua
44. The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror. Brene Brown
45. 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. Padma Lakshmi
46. The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms. Bill O’Reilly
47. It’s really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that’s parenting, in general. It’s hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened. John Ross Bowie
48. 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
49. My approach to parenting is the same as my approach to life: it’s all about putting in the hours and working hard. Perez Hilton
50. 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

216 Parenting quotes that will change you behaviour

1. Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity. Rumaan Alam
2. There was kind of a no-nonsense parenting style that my parents had that was true of the time. Everything now… there are books, and there are websites, and there are blogs, and you’re reading, and there’s research. We’re such an interconnected world now, and half the stuff they did was pretty terrible, but we somehow turned out fine. Adam F. Goldberg
3. I adore my family. I don’t love their politics. I think they’re wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting. Alexandra Fuller
4. 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. Joan Lunden
5. Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I’m sick of that; it’s irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you’re coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own. Bill Goldberg
6. Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good. Andrew Solomon
7. Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious – it’s almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It’s not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you’re five, but it would be nice if there were some other options. Robert Webb
8. Whether I’m running, working, relating, parenting, learning – whatever I’m doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me. Kristin Armstrong
9. Indeed – judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals. Emma Thompson
10. I’m not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show ‘Portlandia.’ My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we’re often participants. Adam Davidson
11. I think the main parenting or education you do for your children is by way of being, and not by way of having guidelines or some agenda. I think that life itself is constantly bringing learning opportunities. Yossi Ghinsberg
12. In her second career as a minister, my mother defied a legacy of chauvinism to become a leader of our community, overseeing a church that served as a hub, offering parenting classes, a food pantry, after-school programming, and – in the wake of Hurricane Katrina – a lifeline to those ravaged by loss. Stacey Abrams
13. Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships. Robert J. Waldinger
14. Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? Erica Jong
15. Parenting is not just about you and your kid; it’s also about whomever you’re parenting your child with. So there is a kind of ‘awareness’ involved for everybody. It’s all about the way you interact with your child and participate in your child’s life. Anna Getty
16. Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don’t want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it’s also a parent’s worst nightmare: That they won’t need you. It’s like the real tragedy of parenting. Jonathan Safran Foer
17. Should kids check phones at dinner? I don’t know. To me, that’s a parenting choice. Sundar Pichai
18. No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible – men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms – remain out of reach. Arlie Russell Hochschild
19. Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There’s no sense of something earned. I’m sorry, but when you’re 12, you don’t need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out. Ewan McGregor
20. Kramer vs. Kramer’ is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting. Taylor Sheridan
21. Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than ‘Jeopardy!’ James Holzhauer
22. I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That’s what parenting is: You’re not there for yourself; you’re there for your offspring and everyone else around you. Conrad Anker
23. Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions. Hanna Rosin
24. Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I’ve grown up with is tough but also very freeing. Paul Walker
25. You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you’re the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single. Jane Kaczmarek
26. I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they’re the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight. Glennon Doyle Melton
27. The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they’re proud of. Jamie Lee Curtis
28. 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. Bill Cosby
29. My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn’t because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. Bill Cosby
30. Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have. Mel Carnahan
31. If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press. Henry Reed
32. 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. Lisa Whelchel
33. Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation’s highways. Dennis Miller
34. My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but ‘Harry Potter’, too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don’t you? Robbie Coltrane
35. 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. Mary J. Blige
36. I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze. Tori Spelling
37. I’m torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble – myself included – as fathers get older. Eric McCormack
38. I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam. Debra Winger
39. No, I’ve never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot. Fiona Apple
40. I’m trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. Eddie Vedder
41. Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age. Jennifer Aniston
42. 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
43. We’re living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It’s a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments. Edie Falco
44. I’ve become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that… basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so. Mayim Bialik
45. I have a neuroscience background – that’s what my doctorate is in – and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that. Mayim Bialik
46. Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose. Mayim Bialik
47. I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage. Mika Brzezinski
48. For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black’s tweets. Michael Showalter
49. The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn’t been able to keep up. Andrew J. Bernstein
50. My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book ‘Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers’ – this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford’s wire hangers look like pool noodles. Sloane Crosley
51. Ah, the power of two. There’s nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons? Sloane Crosley
52. For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting ‘experts’ that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer. Bob Barr
53. My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage – everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ. Lee Strobel
54. When I was a kid, my mother’s parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence. Ariel Gore
55. I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed. Tamora Pierce
56. We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don’t give alcohol to kids. Dale Archer
57. Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what’s expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children’s lives. Susan Cain
58. Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, ‘I want to improve my parenting – let’s see how the chimps do it!’ Ian Dunbar
59. Here’s a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. Bruce Feiler
60. I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book. Bruce Feiler
61. I’m afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them. Alison Gopnik
62. I think we’ve moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself. Emily Oster
63. My approach to parenting is that everything is open – everything. I’m not very good at covert, or subtle, and I’ve had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit. Dawn French
64. If two very different people pool their DNA, they’ll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills. Helen Fisher
65. My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting. Michele Bachmann
66. I don’t claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings. LZ Granderson
67. There’s nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it ‘jazz parenting.’ Ezekiel Emanuel
68. The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult. Jamie Lee Curtis
69. Parenting isn’t just parenting your own child. Lewis Black
70. I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. Steven Spielberg
71. The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough. Jessica Valenti
72. I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It’s that this lie that they’re being told by society that parenting is one thing – and when parenting is something completely different – that’s what makes them unhappy. Jessica Valenti
73. I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I’m pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life. Matthew Perry
74. Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children. George Will
75. Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation. Bill O’Reilly
76. Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little. Tori Amos
77. 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
78. I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it. Alan Alda
79. My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house. Alanis Morissette
80. The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there – not to mention the ‘Baby Einstein’ DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys – won’t do a thing to make your baby smarter. That’s largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways. Alison Gopnik
81. 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
82. We go into parenting, and we discover that we don’t have the answers. We are at a loss. Julia Cameron
83. My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving. Kym Whitley
84. Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction. Bernie Siegel
85. I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that’s: ‘Don’t take other people’s advice on parenting.’ Drew Lachey
86. From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say. Monica Johnson
87. I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don’t know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work. Zach Cregger
88. We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding. James E. Faust
89. As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you’re doing the best you can, and God bless. Emma McLaughlin
90. Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children’s lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do. Charles J. Shields
91. 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
92. My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality. Martin Jacques
93. In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like – parenting is far more challenging. Martin Jacques
94. Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do. Simon Van Booy
95. 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
96. It’s difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what’s good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That’s the hardest. Anthony Edwards
97. Parenting a pre-teen is quite something. Melissa Rivers
98. The children who are ‘our future’ will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting. Virginia Postrel
99. Some men don’t want to be responsible fathers. It’s easier to say ‘Let’s just turn the kids over to the state.’ Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting. Tim Huelskamp
100. 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
101. Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy. Jenna Morasca
102. I told my kids when they were little, ‘Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don’t understand how, or we wouldn’t do it. But we’re parents. So somehow we’re damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.’ Pat Conroy
103. We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, ‘This isn’t the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.’ When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can’t seem to stop ourselves. Liane Moriarty
104. I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they’re not doing… I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn’t have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it’s all over the Internet. Nelly
105. I’m doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys. Josie Bissett
106. I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I’m really a paddler on a beach. Tamsin Greig
107. People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it’s not something that they’re up for, and I don’t know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that. Meghan Daum
108. That’s my parenting style – ‘Go watch the TV.’ I’m one of 11 children, and my mother’s parenting style was, ‘There’s the TV. Go watch it. Mommy’s got 10 other people to take care of.’ Stephen Colbert
109. Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it’s an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life. Nicholas Kristof
110. Some have said that ‘Frankenstein’ is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child. Dave Morris
111. My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home. Christie Brinkley
112. I’m not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges – which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it. Stacey D’Erasmo
113. Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other. Juhi Chawla
114. 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
115. Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It’s become my life’s work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood. Anna Getty
116. The way I was parented did affect my parenting – probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict. Alan Thicke
117. Growth doesn’t hurt. This is what I’ve learned. In the end, it doesn’t hurt. It hurts while it’s happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it’s not a bad – not a bad thing to try for. Laura Dern
118. In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short. Don Willett
119. I don’t think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I’m pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering. W. Bruce Cameron
120. Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father’s view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him. W. Bruce Cameron
121. The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we’ve never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting. Riccardo Sabatini
122. 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
123. 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
124. Parenting is no sport for perfectionists. Andrew Solomon
125. Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren’t equal, and that doesn’t help anyone. Christine Tsai
126. Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror – robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why. Jenny Zhang
127. A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child. John Dickerson
128. My parenting heroes are the Obamas! They’ve been married for so long, and it looks like they’re having fun, and their kids are down to earth, well-adjusted, and smart. They seem to have a strong family unit that I would like to emulate in my life. GloZell
129. 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
130. In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens. Laura Moser
131. The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, ‘When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.’ Daniel Bryan
132. My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that. Andrew Lincoln
133. I think there’s different parenting styles. Farrah Abraham
134. Once you’ve taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn’t add much information. Robert J. Waldinger
135. There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
136. Growing up, I’ve always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture. Kelly Marie Tran
137. Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting. Pamela Adlon
138. Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is. Irene Rosenfeld
139. If I meet a wise person, I think, ‘Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me more about how to be a decent person living in a world that’s filled with chaos.’ Min Jin Lee
140. Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully. Carrie-Anne Moss
141. In parenthood, there’s so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there’s so much fear around technology. Rosemarie DeWitt
142. 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
143. Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren. Emily V. Gordon
144. Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting. Rachel Simmons
145. Somebody once told me I treated my smart phone like Wilson, the volleyball Tom Hanks turns into a friend when he’s stranded on a desert island in that movie ‘Castaway.’ It’s an apt comparison: parenting a toddler occasionally feels like being marooned, and your phone is your only connection to the rest of the world. Rachel Simmons
146. Launching a kid into college is about more than having the money to pay for it. Parents invest so much of their time and identities in the process that it can feel like a part time job. For many parents, the college your child ends up attending becomes a parenting grade. Rachel Simmons
147. Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he advocated limiting the reach of the landmark 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying certain parenting rights to same-sex couples. Sarah McBride
148. I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it. Jesmyn Ward
149. Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother. Jennifer Nettles
150. Parenting definitely has some challenging moments. Tamera Mowry
151. Cohabitation itself doesn’t cause ineffective parenting. Stephanie Coontz
152. Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women. Stephanie Coontz
153. The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don’t have to compromise one for the other. Johnny Flynn
154. With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women. Rumaan Alam
155. Parenting is love, sure, but it’s as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity. Rumaan Alam
156. I’ve got letters from all over the world saying what you’re describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting. Pamela Druckerman
157. America’s parenting customs can shock foreigners. Pamela Druckerman
158. We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we’re not sure what’s in them or whether they’re good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces. Pamela Druckerman
159. One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you’re used to one stage, they zoom into another. Pamela Druckerman
160. I do think that there’s an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well. Elizabeth Berg
161. Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard. Karamo Brown
162. People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you’ve never met before will tell you you’re doing something wrong. And it’s quite similar in writing. People forget that you’re a human; they just want to give you their advice. Emma Healey
163. So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it’s something I’m drawn to without being able to completely articulate why. Paul G. Tremblay
164. Parenting makes us better in so many regards. Alissa Quart
165. 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
166. When I first learned I was pregnant with my son, I had only two firm convictions about parenting: I knew it was important, and I knew that I wanted to get it right. I was 29 at the time. Kim Brooks
167. I don’t want to believe it – that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other, that there is something inherently selfish and greedy and darkly obsessive in the desire to care as much about the thing you are writing or making as you do about the other humans in your life. What parent would want to believe this? Kim Brooks
168. The desire to keep television out of our son’s life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed on from the beginning. We debated the pros and cons of co-sleeping, of pacifiers, of chemical-free crib mattresses and baby sign language. The television question, on the other hand, was a no-brainer. Kim Brooks
169. I do not wish to share any parenting responsibilities with Michael because he is doing so well without me. Debbie Rowe
170. People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith. Ty Burrell
171. Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you’ve got. Maybe it’s your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents. Chris Gardner
172. The ’70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows cracked while they went to the grocery store. Ann Patchett
173. I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I’ve been on my own, parenting myself. Rosa Salazar
174. As parenting goes, knowing the whereabouts of one’s children is pretty fundamental. Katie Hopkins
175. It’s not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me. Kevin Jonas
176. 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
177. It’s funny: everybody is going to have a little bit of different point of views when it comes to parenting. Haylie Duff
178. As I started parenting, I realised there is no formula to it. Sonali Bendre
179. The parenting books didn’t work for me; I got my parenting lessons from everything but the books! And it was about figuring things out. So every time I had a thought, I would put down my conclusions and thoughts. Sonali Bendre
180. Mum and Dad had high expectations of us as human beings – it wasn’t just about education. It’s a fantastic way to go about parenting, and I aspire to that. Tim Minchin
181. I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can’t think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting. Derren Brown
182. We will never achieve equality in the workplace until we have more equality in the home. Our plans for an extra four weeks of parental leave specifically for fathers will help tackle the assumption that parenting is one of the ‘girl jobs’. Jo Swinson
183. Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives. Merlin Olsen
184. Everyone’s generation probably feels like they’re parenting in a better way. David Sheff
185. In the past, I have been guilty of returning from work with some parenting words of wisdom, ignoring the fact that my wife has been dealing with the situation for a while. The correct strategy at these times is to wind my mansplaining neck in. Romesh Ranganathan
186. How my parents are in the kitchen is a good indicator of their parenting style. Mum cooks for sustenance, wants to get in and out, the job done quickly. My Dad wants to prance around in the kitchen, create a curry – and a mess – and entertain everyone. Nadiya Hussain
187. 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
188. I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age. Mathew Knowles
189. I don’t think my music is that big of a deal – my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make records and go off and play shows is a small percentage of my day-to-day existence. Phil Elverum
190. Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting. Eric Greitens
191. I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple – that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn’t to me at the time. Angela Rayner
192. 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
193. I’m no parenting guru. I suppose you just take everyday as it comes and do what you think is best. Spencer Matthews
194. You hear so much awful stuff before you have a kid, like you’ll never sleep again, we always knew it would be utter garbage. We’re pretty relaxed people, the less stressed you are the more easy you’ll find parenting. Spencer Matthews
195. Parenting is more than a numbers game: it’s a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do. David Lammy
196. 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
197. I am no expert on parenting. Ranvir Shorey
198. Parenting is a learning process. Kim Zolciak-Biermann
199. Parenting put music in the right place for me. Touring was always the first priority before, but it isn’t any more. And, paradoxically, that has made my ability to make music much easier. Anoushka Shankar
200. Single parenting isn’t easy, but it’s a choice I made and as with everything else in my life it’s been a ‘give it your 100 per cent or don’t do it.’ Pooja Bedi
201. I listen to parenting books on tape. Hilaria Baldwin
202. The top tip for parenting, especially for newly married couples or people trying to have a baby: you should want to have a child. Reham Khan
203. People ask me how I’ve raised three children as a single parent but honestly, parenting has been a breeze. Reham Khan
204. I think there’s been a big psychological shift in people my age raising children. The world that they are growing into requires a different style of parenting. Asher Keddie
205. If you put twenty parents in a room together, they will all have different parenting styles due to how they were raised and how they choose to raise their children. To each their own! Cynthia Bailey
206. Parenting is a sensitive, controversial subject, so I say to all the mommas and the daddies of the world God bless and good luck! Cynthia Bailey
207. As a father you’re guilty until proven innocent. You’re a second class citizen in terms of parenting. As a father you have to prove your ability to be a father whilst residence, power and control is left solely with the mother. Stacey Solomon
208. My daughter’s position in our household is definitely higher than mine. I listen to her a lot. I guess you can say that’s my parenting style. Zhao Wei
209. I had a pretty well-adjusted style of parenting. I think my parents were very young, very open. I think I learned many things from them: etiquette and grace, compassion and charity. And who I am today is due to a lot of attributes of my parents. Jo Frost
210. My parenting skills came from two decades of being in the field helping families and having the opportunity to work with hundreds of families of all different ages. Jo Frost
211. There’s a lot of external issues that have a ripple effect on a family and a lot of internal, practical parenting challenges that families are trying to overcome every day. Children become the silent witnesses of such worry within their families. Jo Frost
212. As a mother living in poverty, I don’t expect my parenting choices to be respected by default. Stephanie Land
213. I hate the idea of parenting being this false perfect picture. It’s challenging and difficult at times. I like the fact I can be honest about that and people seem to respect that. Tom Fletcher
214. Too often, our societal norms still set up a false choice between parenting and professionalism. Michelle Wu
215. Certainly, workers in many industries do not have the privilege of being able to balance parenting at the workplace, and we must fight especially hard to support working parents in low-wage jobs. Michelle Wu
216. Solo parenting is harder than Premier football. It’s mentally tough. Wayne Bridge