Quotes About Parenting

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

You're just the sperm donor, Norm," he says, heading for the door. "That's all you were ever good for. Fucking sperm.

I'll just get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person.

You swear you'll never become your parents. You listen to edgy music, you dress young and hip, you have sex standing up and on kitchen tables, you say "fuck" and "shit" a lot, and then one day, without warning, their words emerge from your mouth like long-dormant sleeper agents suddenly activated.

The book was something of a national phenomenon and turned my mother into something of a celebrity expert on parenting. Predictably, my siblings and I were screwed up beyond all repair.

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

I may have overmothered you and screwed you up in ways large and small, but I think it's time you took some measure of responsibility for where you choose to put your own penis.

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.

Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.

If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends. The research literature is quite clear on this. This matters, because peers are the primary source of socialization after the age of four.

It is the primary duty of parents to make their children socially desirable. That will provide the child with opportunity, self-regard, and security. It's more important even than fostering individual identity.

Don't cast pearls before swine, as the old saying goes. And you might think that's harsh. But training your child not to sleep, and rewarding him with the antics of a creepy puppet? That's harsh too. You pick your poison, and I'll pick mine.

How hard someone [a child] is hit, and why they are hit, cannot merely be ignored when speaking of hitting. Timing, part of context, is also of crucial importance.

parents should understand their own capacity to be harsh, vengeful, arrogant, resentful, angry and deceitful.

or (this one is particularly evil) "to ensure that it is always my unloved child's fault." These are all examples of what Sigmund Freud's compatriot, the lesser-known Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler, called "life-lies."149

the too-cautious, too-caring parent merely substitutes him or herself for the other terrible problems of life. This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare.49 It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

Las reglas claras y la disciplina apropiada ayudan al niño, a la familia y a la sociedad a establecer, mantener y expandir el orden, que es todo lo que nos protege del caos y de los terrores del inframundo, allí donde todo es incierto, donde todo provoca ansiedad, desesperanza y depresión. No hay mejor regalo que unos padres responsables y valientes. No permitas que tus hijos hagan cosas que detestes.