Quotes About Parenting

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.

You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

I think there is a moment in every parent's life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It's a moment of looking in the mirror and going, 'I need to put on some lipstick.'

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

As a parent, I know how difficult it can be to encourage your kids to eat well.

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

If you look at top players - Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi - so many had a parent who was domineering to the point where you really had to question his sanity. It was nuts.

Like every parent, I cannot rest easy until my children are home safe at night.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

As a parent myself, I can appreciate the MPAA and what they're supposed to do, but what happens with NC-17 is that the MPAA is basically taking away the rights of parents. They're basically telling me that I can't show my kids this movie if I decide they can see it.

I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for your children so that they can meet all the challenges.

It's an advantage to have two parents, but to have one parent to stay closely connected and at home during those early years of education can be very very important.

A lot of my friends in my student days complained about how their parents made them play an instrument when they were kids. I always felt compassion for them and didn't believe a parent could be so cruel, but when I check today, those complaining friends grew up to be quite successful, and many of them are now making their children play.

Ever since I became a parent, time moves far too quickly. My vision always feels like I'm wearing giant kaleidoscope-goggles.