Quotes About Parenting

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you.- Desmond Tutu In the end, kids won't remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

Although her parents didn't know it, Debra had gotten a prescription for birth control pills at Planned Parenthood when she was only ten.

Peggy and Kelvin had one daughter—and then a second—and they proved to be good parents to Mariah and Taylor

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to meddle, micromanage, and coddle, beginning with my children's father, who sat me down and told me in year two that I was going to create a little monster if I continuted to act as though no and I don't love you were synonomous.

I know from experience that those least capable of truly assessing any marriage are the children who come out of it. We style them as we need them, to excuse our faults, to insulate ourselves from our own expendability or indispensability.

It's a complicated relationship, being a good grandparent, because it hinges on a series of other relationships... Because being a grandparent is determined by the relationship your child has with you, partly determined by the one a son or daughter has with his or her spouse, partly determined by the relationship you have with the person your child has chosen to have a child with.

Some people measure their success by the profession their children have chosen, by the purchase of a house, by how often they visit or call. But the only measurement, truly, is something that's quite subjective: have you raised good people?