Quotes About Parenting

Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

get nostalgic for being a teenager for this reason. It never occurred to me then to be nice to other people. I look back at that time as a time of great freedom—but that was the great freedom, that I didn't give a fuck. I cannot give a fuck more than I already do. I feel it would be the end of me. Having children is nice. What a great victory to be not-nice. The nicest thing to give the world is a child. Do I ever want to be that nice?

I was still upset that Mom had been so careless and because of that, Lovie and I might not have shared the same biological father. It's funny how you always think your parents are just parents. Rarely do you see them as people who are going through life's struggles exactly like you.

According to a study quoted in the New York Times, the parents of ordinarily creative children had an average of 6 rules, while the parents of highly creative children only had one.[32] Fewer rules, telling your kids what to do and how to do it produces more creative kids. But they are probably harder to manage!

People have too many theories about raising children. I believe simply in love, security, and discipline.

Children grow away from busy parents because busy parents grow way from the children.

It's just taking some getting used to. The snarling, the hissing, the purring. Then I have to deal with it from the baby…." "Ha, ha," Mace stated dryly.

Arms crossed over that massive chest, the lion looked down his nose at Smitty as only a cat could. "What else have you taught my son? How to chase his tail? Lick his ass?" "Nah, I stuck with the cat basics. Park lazy ass under tree, sleep twenty hours, eat all the food after the females do all the hunting, take a few minutes to roar, then sleep another twenty hours.

I have iced tea, dear. Or beer?" "Maybe a saucer of milk?" Gwen and Alla looked over at Lock and he immediately pointed at his father. "It was him," he lied.

Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child.

I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

My wife and I are parents to a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It's really important for me to always be there for bath time and breakfast time and on the weekends.

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

I have a four-month-old and I also have a toddler, so that takes up all of my time.

I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.