Quotes About Parenting

Believe me, if you beheld on lips with grief one smile of joy and gratitude, and knew that you were parent of that smile and that without you it had never been, you would feel so pure and warm a happiness that you'd wish to live forever again and again to enjoy the same pleasure.

Our children can play together…while my boy kills yours.

Studies of criminal records of adoptees in Denmark revealed a strong correlation with the criminal record of the biological parent and a very small correlation with the criminal record of the adopting parent – and even that vanished when controlled for peer-group effects, whereby the adopting parents were found to live in more, or less, criminal neighbourhoods according to whether they themselves were criminals.

The sex that invests most in rearing the young—by carrying a fetus for nine months in its belly, for example—is the sex that makes the least profit from an extra mating. The sex that invests the least has time to spare to seek other mates. Therefore, broadly speaking, males invest less and seek quantity of mates, while females invest more and seek quality of mates.

There was no use in fighting. He'd lost. There are so many losses in parenting, strung together over many years.

For the first thirty-something years of my life, I never once asked my dad if he was OK . . . and now I've done it twice in one week. I wonder if this is just the way it is. Are all our parents, collectively, fucked up? Have they always been fucked up, and it just takes us until our own adulthood to figure that out?

He considered rolling over and simply ignoring his son. There should be a rule in parenting that you get to do that once every fiscal year. If you skip a year, it carries over— like airline miles or paid time off.

It turns out that maybe breeding bonsai-tree children to become résumé zombies isn't so good for their mental health.

We heard her come halfway up the stairs, where she must have seen the bedroom light on. Again, the normal parent reaction would have been to say something like, You had better come out this moment or I am releasing the tiger! But Debbie was not a normal parent, so we heard her gigle and creep away, saying, Shhh! Rachel! Come with Mommy! Stuart is busy!

For you, there is underage, and then, there is underage. I believe a taste of wine is perfectly acceptable, but please stick to one glass tonight. Now, let's work on ambiance.

We kind of wanted the going-out, shopping, prom-going type, and we got this weird, creepy one, and we love it but what is it talking about, ever? Sometimes Stevie felt bad for her parents. Their idea of what constituted interesting was so limited. They were never going to have as much fun as she did.

I came here in order to bring up my sons as human beings. I would not surrender them to the educational systems devised to stunt a child's brain, to convince him that reason is impotent, that existence is an irrational chaos with which he's unable to deal, and thus reduce him to a state of chronic terror.

Parenting of millennial Muslims in the age of the War on Terror demanded levels of awareness that immigrant parents often didn't have the capacity for.

I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.

Five days a week, she came into my room at four in the morning, force-fed me breakfast, and proceeded to teach me my English lessons for three hours before I left for school and she went to work.

their minds were storing away a vision of life's possibilities and the beauty of the American landscape, just as mine once had; and that they might someday think back on our trips together and be reminded that they were so worthy of love, so fascinating and electric with life, that there was nothing their parents would rather do than share those vistas with them.

Every parent savors such moments, I suppose, when the world slows down, your strivings get pushed to the back of your mind, and all that matters is that you are present, fully, to witness the miracle of your child growing up.

Your father's not allowed to have fun. He has to sit in boring meetings all day." "Poor Daddy

My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

think people whose fathers aren't there—and whose mothers are feeling really bitter about their fathers' not being there—what they absorb is how terrible that guy was and you don't want to be like that guy. In

I don't see kids smiling around here no more. You look at 'em listen to 'em… they seem worried all the time, mad about something. They got nothing they trust. Not their parents. Not God. Not themselves. And that's not right. That just ain't the way things supposed to be… kids not smiling

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.

Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.

pero nadie se atreve a dar por supuesto que, si los niños llevan un rato callados, es porque están viendo un deuvedé educativo. No, las madres enseguida piensan que un hermano ha estrangulado a otro, o que han metido un tenedor en el enchufe; así es como se perpetúa nuestro genoma.