Quotes About Parenting

Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings

It's hard to keep up with your children,' he said. 'It means keeping up with everything new. And you stay in your rut and then it's too late. Before you know it you are old.

Kokusunu çoktan unuttu?um bir zaman diliminde bile, ken­dini parma??n a?z?na as?l? an?ms?yorsan, öykü ba?lam??t?r. öykü, annenin sümerce bir yenilgi yaz?t? olmas?d?r. baba, her zaman oldu?u gibi karanl?k bir kap? aral???, dikenli bir kilit sesi. o içeri girdi?inde, sen art?k hep d??ardas?n.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

A child domain always contains the complete domain name of parent

In every generation, ever since Negroes have been here, every Negro mother and father has had to face that child and try to create in that child some way of surviving this particular world, some way to make the child who will be despised not despise himself. I don't know what "the Negro Problem" means to white people, but this is what it means to Negroes.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

He is not a pleasant person,' I said. 'I don't know what we need him for.' 'You'll just have to learn to get along with him,' my mother replied. We were speaking of her husband, the man she had chosen to father her children.

Oh, the things I haven't seen and the things I haven't known, What with hedges and ditches till after I was grown, And yanked both ways by my mother and my father, With a "Which would you better?" and a "Which would you rather?" With him for a sire and her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am?

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

It's ten p.m. Do you know where your children are?

There are only two lasting bequests that we can hope to give our children — roots and wings.

The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Take out the papers and the trashOr you don't get no spending cash;If you don't scrub that kitchen floor,You ain't gonna rock 'n' roll no more.Yakety yak, don't talk back.