Quotes About Parenting

I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.

I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.

I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet... I want my children to be the same... I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.

I would consider my dad a pretty patient guy, but there was no tolerance for spoiled behavior.

There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

It was one of those truths about raising a child that was almost impossible to imagine. The fact that these things would disappear, the body-to-body connection that began that first day in the hospital would one day come to an end.

Hopping on the couch and standing eye to eye gives many puppies the impression that it's playtime. A better approach is to have your puppy stay on their place, looking up to you with parental reverence. As your puppy matures, you can permission-train them, as detailed later in this section.

But you can't raise kids to believe life is always going to be smooth. Sometimes life throws rocks at you, and when that happens, they need to learn to dodge when they can and get back up if they're hit. You need to teach them to handle the rocks.

She'd done everything she could to compensate and influence the future. She wanted nothing but good for her daughters and the burden of it was huge. It weighed her down, and there were days when it almost crushed her. And she'd made him carry the burden, too. Survivor's guilt. "I worry I haven't done enough. Or that I haven't done it right." "I'm sure every parent thinks that from time to time.

I'm too tired to cope with a teenager. I thought the terrible twos were supposed to be the worst age and now I'm discovering it's sixteen.

I can never understand why people seem to think that growing up with unhappy parents is better than growing up with a happy single parent.

When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me.

Being insulted by your child and loving them anyway is the human condition.

times it's like living in a gorgeous museum. Even the people don't look quite real—those perfect-looking parents with perfect children in spotless navy coats. I dream of pushing them into puddles.

A man ought to be a source of shame to his father, don't you think? If I ever have a son, I hope he makes my life hell. How, otherwise, will there ever be any progress?

Truthful, tick. Gentle, tick. Fearless? Well, she'd never told her daughter she'd disappointed her before, so tick, tick, tick.

If you have the heart of a human being and you become the parent of a human being, then even if it exhausts every bit of your energy, until that child can walk alone I want you to do your duty as a parent.

Being a dad is not summed up by requiring compliance or obedience; it is, at its most basic level, pointing your children to the God who has made it all OK and saves lost sinners on account of Christ.

Piss!" shouted Kosta, hoisting his tumbler toward Cosetta, who nearly came apart at the joints with the resulting fit of giggles. " Thank you , Ravelle, for this gift of a daughter who will now be up all night repeating that word...