Quotes About Parenting

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

Keeping a child from harm is not the same as rearing one.

When Hap had been ten, it had been so much easier to know that I was doing the right things for him. Feed him well, teach him to fish, see that he had clean clothes and slept well at night. That was most of what a boy needed. A young man was a different animal entirely.

Why, I suddenly wondered, had I wasted all those hours I could have spent with her? Why hadn't I gone with them, to listen to a bedtime story or nursery song?

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it become even rarer once one has a child.

As we stood together and watched our boy walk down the lane to the main road, I wondered if I had ever been so insufferably young and sure of myself, but the ache in my heart had the pleasant afterglow of pride.

Once you are a father, you have to try to be a better man than you truly are.

There is monstrous vanity in the pride we take in our children

Let your children see you kiss. Let them see you embrace. Let them overhear your teasing, your gentle rebukes, even your well-intentioned jealousy. Domestic courtship reinforces the notion that people are together because they want to be together, not because it is the decent, practical thing to do.

Most spores can't germinate in the leafy carpet of their own parents

How do we show our children our love? Each in our own way by a shower of gifts and a heavy rain of lessons.

When my son was born I had this dream that one day he might grow up to be a Nobel Prize winner. But I also had another dream that he might grow up to say, "Do you want fries with that?"

Baby caca is like Kryptonite to a father. Even the dog says, "You don't rub his face in it."

Daddy? Daddy, I know the baby is in the mommy"s tummy and the baby comes out of the mommy"s tummy, but, Daddy? How do that baby get in the mommy"s tummy?

Why don't I give her a bottle while you eat. I brought coffee." "Really, I didn't know they made men like you," she said, letting him follow her into the kitchen. When he put down the plate and thermos, she handed over the baby and tested the bottle. "You seem very comfortable with a newborn. For a man. A man with some nieces in Sacramento." He just smiled at her. She passed him the bottle and got out two coffee mugs.

I'm not wild about throwing up or waddling, but I sure love carrying around a little piece of you. You're right--you make excellent babies." "We all have our special talents," he said. Mel and Jack

Our children are not our possessions, Nora. They're loaned to us to raise and to be set free. From the time he could look up, he was determined to fly high and fast.

How's the family, Jack?" "Exceptional. Mel's exceptionally gorgeous and demanding, Emma's exceptionally beautiful and David is an exceptionally bad terrible two. We may not survive him." "Oh,

Good Lord," Maureen interrupted him. "What did your father and I do to turn you boys off marriage?" she asked, half pleading, half annoyed. "I thought we had a good marriage, your da and me. He was so wonderful to me. I tried to take good care of him and you boys! It makes me wonder where we failed that the lot of you are terrified of marriage." "It

but I'm still the child of an abusive alcoholic and we don't make great parent material.

intentions don't matter in parenting. Kids don't understand what you mean. They understand what you do.

Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.

How many infants are born each day - innocent, sweet, boundless - only to be ruined by the very people who have given them life?