Quotes About Parenting

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. Deborah Norville

Trying to rescue your parents from their worst devils is hard on kids, you know? Makes 'em either mean or saintly or both.

conflicting metamessages inherent in giving help become especially apparent when people are in a hierarchical relationship to each other by virtue of their jobs. Just as parents are often frustrated in attempts to be their children's "friends," so bosses who try to give friendly advice to subordinates may find that their words, intended symmetrically, are interpreted through an asymmetrical filter.

Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

Well, trust me. Nowadays, babies travel with more crap than a rock band." He

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

Now more than ever, in this age of violence and confusion, there is an urgent need for parents to take on the role of spiritual teachers to their children.

You don't want the decisions about your children's lives to be in my hands or any other judge's hands. We don't know your kids, we don't understand your kids. You're five minutes on my docket. We're going to make the best decision we can, but we don't love them."–Judge Lynn Toler, from the Divorce Court TV show2

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence

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

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the home.

And the reason parenting is becoming increasingly crucial is that we now live in a world that is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

I remember once my kid got in trouble for saying to his teacher, "What time is fucking recess?" and I remember thinking, "Now where would he fucking pick up something like that?

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.

Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children's IQs than their children's characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.

Who knows the difference between education and training? For those of you with daughters, would you rather have them take sex education or sex training? Need I say more?

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father

La mayoría de las mujeres obtienen sus hermosas miradas de la mamá, a menos que el padre pasa a ser un cirujano plástico.

Most of the women get their beautiful looks from the Mom, unless the Dad happens to be a Plastic Surgeon.