Quotes About Parenting

Parents could see what was happening to their own children, who were being drawn to electronic devices—cell phones, computers, and iPads—as if to opium-infused cupcakes.

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really yours, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece.

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense? Sure, I said. Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

He doesn't even look at her because there is too much there, and he's afraid. She is his first child, his favorite, every mistake he ever made.

Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.

If people really gave it full consideration, I mean, like if you could return a baby after thirty days' examination like one of those Time-Life books, then I figure the entire human species would go extinct in a month's time.

Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes," he still loves to say, as often as possible. "It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

Sometimes that happens. Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them," she said. "It works out.

About how your kids aren't really yours, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece.

The girl was compulsively honest. In earlier years, Willa's every attempt to teach her the artful evasion known as "tact" would get shot down with "Mom, that's lying!" And Tig remained the child who announced when opening gifts at birthday parties, "Thanks, Grandma, I have one of these already and I don't really like it.

I knew exactly what I should have said: Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

Was it normal now for parents to operate in the dark? She never knew what was fair to ask.

Overweight children are a demographic in many ways similar to minors addicted to cigarettes, with one notable exception: their parents are usually their suppliers

He noticed the children less and less. He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay to be molded.

Do you have children? I have five. Three girls, two boys, all scoundrels. But not an anarchist in the brood. I've failed completely.

Jazon and Mical. What kind of mother misspelled her kids' names on purpose?

Around the table went the Oh sure, Mom face that mothers everywhere know and do not love.

If I got to make just one law, it would be that the men who make the decisions to drop bombs would first, every time, have to spend one whole day taking care of a baby. We were not made to do this killing thing. I swear. Back up. It's a big mistake.

the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.

Indeed I do know what boys are like, especially that horrid little monster, Adele thought, but said, rather shakily, 'Yes, Emma, you are right to some extent. But occasionally children must be