Quotes About Parenting

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.

I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

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.

My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.

Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.

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.

Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.

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.

America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

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?

I do not wish to share any parenting responsibilities with Michael because he is doing so well without me.

It's not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

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.

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.

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.

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?

My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.

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.

Parenting definitely has some challenging moments.

With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.

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.

One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.