Quotes About Parenting

When I see a mom embarrassed because her kid is having a temper tantrum, I'm like, 'Please! Do you think I've never gone through that?' Women tend to be too hard on themselves.

My personality is more like my mother's. She was fiery. She had more of a temper. I always thought she had enough determination that she could do anything. She could fix anything. I think all children need that feeling from their parents.

Sometimes I think about all the hours spent making lunches, carting kids from one place to another, being up in the middle of the night taking temperatures. People who haven't had to do that have, say, read every last book up there from cover to cover and probably remember it. There are trade-offs. But more life is more life.

Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs.

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities, professionals, and other adults. Working-class children, on the other hand, are more likely to interact regularly only with kin and neighborhood children, which limits their formation of valuable weak ties.

parents in poor neighborhoods are more likely to experience depression, stress, and illness, which in turn "are associated with less warm and consistent parenting.

I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.

Being a parent meant exposing a part of your heart to incredible joy and happiness, but also to the possibility of unspeakable despair and agony.

terrible twos

I have a lot more patience now than I did when I was twenty-five, and patience is a big part of being a parent." "I

My father knew the depth of my relationship to my mother, and he didn't begrudge us a moment of it. My relationship with him was different. He'd raised me to be a man, and he was proud of me. But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.

we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars but our hearts: The day we marry. The days our children are born. Their first step. Their first word. Their first day of school. And when our children grow, we remember those moments with a touch of melancholy: the day they get their driver's license, the day we drive them to college, the day they marry, and the day they have their children.

fathers' flaws and weaknesses. They knew they weren't heroes

Mais on laisse n'importe quel connard débile devenir père

Guilt is never as good a motivator as love, David. Act out of love. Do it because you love your son.

Fine, but what about your wife? she'd asked. Is she going to have a fucking problem? I hope not, Kins had said. With three kids under the age of eight, that's about the last fun thing we do together. She

It was the conundrum of every parent with a boy becoming a young man—loving your child enough to let him make his own decisions and his own mistakes, and not stepping in to rescue him.

Fine, but what about your wife? she'd asked. Is she going to have a fucking problem? I hope not, Kins had said. With three kids under the age of eight, that's about the last fun thing we do together.

You need to find a way to work together as parents. You have to find a way to love your kids more than you hate each other.

Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.

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

You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.