Quotes About Parenting

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

Men should have more time with their newborn babies.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.

The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.