Quotes About Parenting

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

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

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

The successful parents I saw were able to redefine who they were and renegotiate their needs and roles as humans, parents, and partners.

Parenting is constant readjustment.

She looked u at me through tear-stained cheeks and stammered, "My dad won't give me a Porsche when I come home if I don;t get all A's." I was a bit stunned. IT was my first encounter with real wealth. I remember looking at her and thinking, Holy shit. Being spoiled is worse abuse that being hit. At least I knew that being hit is wrong, But being spoiled ruins you.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

You have to hang in there, because two or three years later, the gremlins will return your child, and he will be wonderful again.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

Life with kids is unpredictable. Their propensity to live "in the moment" clashes easily with our "perfect plans.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

it is impossible to effectively parent from the driver's seat of a minivan.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.