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Quotes About Parenting

What kind of parents are you? You lost one son, but you threw the other away.
~ Anne Gracie
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
~ Anne Lamott
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
~ Anne Sullivan
When you have children, you're obligated to live.
~ Anne Tyler
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
~ Anne Tyler
Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.
~ Anne Ursu
You see," the lord explained, "everyone else has them. You wouldn't want your child to be the only one who had flaws. What would it be like for them?
~ Anne Ursu
He doesn't want to answer any more questions with "I don't know." He wants his son to be responsible. He'd like him to be brave. Remi just wants to be the good guy, the good father. Just for once, he'd like his son to look up to him, to trust him
~ Anne Whitney Pierce
Everyone has the right to live her own life, NO parent can destroy the youth and joy of their child. They use all kinds of excuses to try and cover their selfishness but if the daughter or son do take the bit in their teeth and LIVE the mother always gets on allright.
~ Annejet van der Zijl
Imagine that your own children, who you brought into the world, just walk past you. It's enough to make anybody crazy.
~ Annejet van der Zijl
What? You don't want any boiled beef tongue? Ha-ha. Eat the fucking tongue. We are the parents, they said, and you are the child.
~ Anneli Rufus
It is one thing to let go of the housekeeping. Quite another to relinquish being the center of your children's universe.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
Get it, get it, get it!" moaned Bean. She had never been so bored in her entire life. She was so bored she fell on the floor. Then she took a tiny peek up at the lady in the dressing room next door. Yow. "Get up, Bean!" said her mother. "This minute." Bean got up and sat on the triangle seat again. She waited. Nancy looked at herself. "I kind of like it," Nancy said. "But it costs forty dollars. That's all my
~ Annie Barrows
Elle servait des pommes de terre et du lait du matin au soir pour que je sois assise dans un amphi à écouter parler de Platon
~ Annie Ernaux
Comme la plupart des parents, les miens s'imaginaient détecter infailliblement au premier coup d'Å"il le moindre signe de dérive.
~ Annie Ernaux
The good news: research shows that offering simple instructions to parents leads them to gesture more often; in turn, their children also gesture more.
~ Annie Murphy Paul
Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and shut-up.
~ Anonymous
Anyone can be a father, but it takes a lot to be a daddy.
~ Anonymous
On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training - they both go along. It keeps them fit.
~ Joe Calzaghe
I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.
~ Esther Rolle
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
~ Gloria Estefan
I had never really thought of myself as a baby person, but it's just a really profound connection.
~ Leslie Jamison
My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire.
~ Sela Ward
Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.
~ Ezra Taft Benson