Quotes About Parenting

If it is hard to find a 'natural' parent-child relationship in this variety of family arrangements, it is also difficult to make pat historical judgments about what kind of family is best for children.

as long as we respond to the uncertainties with common sense, flexibility, and affection, most of us can be, in therapist Donald Winnicott's words, "good enough" parents.

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it won't change the fact that they are upset.

I hate you No, you don't. My dad can be very calm sometimes. He's my hole world Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me. That was my mom. [pp.28]

She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying Young Lady after every sentence.

I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do. I just don't know.

I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.

Mary Katherine had no way of understanding that her mother was not upset at her seventeen-year-old daughter because she was too relieved that the seventeen-week-old daughter that she remembered nursing hadn't died in that car accident last night. She had no way of knowing that no matter how big children feel, they will always look smaller to their parents.

I think he was especially happy because I used to kiss this boy in the neighborhood a lot when I was very little, and even though the psychiatrist said it was very natural for little boys and girls to explore things like that, I think my father was afraid anyway. I guess that's natural, but I'm not sure why.

You know… a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.

You can't spell parentry without try. Of course, you'll make a few mistakes. The important thing is that the mistakes you make with your kids are the same ones your parents made with you . At least you know how those turn out.

Don't do it," the patient said. "Even if she wants it, don't let her do it. I used to be a model. You don't want your kid to be a model.

I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute! I mean, I just want to know one thing: How do you teach them not to eat your kids?

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

I don't think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them.

A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone

A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.

Has it ever occurred to you, he said abruptly, that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming? I shook my head. Tell you what I think, he said, I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

It was, he supossed, one of the adventages of having married a doctor- you could shove the kid at your husband whenever the kid seemed to be dying.

Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time