Quotes About Parenting

Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk—as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed.

Thirty-nine. A widow. Trying to fill her sons' needs. Trying to be both mother and father. Careful not to demand too much of the boys.

What ails people, they can't let their kids alone, he thought, turning back into the barn. As if their kids was property they owned, and not livin', breathin' people.

Obviously there are things a kid doesn't need to know about his parents, but you could tell some of them.

Children, I came to understand, need you around, even if they ignore you. In fact they need you around so they can ignore you.

Because all the talk about "quality time" is utter nonsense; children don't need quality time. They need your time. Lots of it. And they let you know it.

Pero éstas me han salvado; éstas me alimentan; éstas son hombres, no mujeres, para sufrir conmigo; que vosotros, como si os hubiera engendrado otro, no yo.

Since taking are of one small baby is the hardest job on earth, I am constantly late, as I am today.

My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again.

children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison, and it was the poison of grown-ups which did for us.

His father said to him: 'See now. You pay your way. I've made a man of you.' But what man That's what fathers never know. Not in advance. Not until it's too late

They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.

Aš iš tav?s padariau žmog?. Bet kok? žmog?? To t?vai niekada nežino. Bent jau iš anksto; o kai sužino, b?na per v?lu.

Pagas lo que debes. He hecho de ti un hombre.» Pero ¿qué hombre? Eso es algo que los padres nunca saben. No lo saben de antemano; no lo saben hasta que ya es tarde.)

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

What gives me strength is thinking about my children.

I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

I notice that if there are some times I've been stressed, because I'm human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you're a happy mom so they can be happy.

On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life.