Quotes About Parenting

I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

I am living my childhood with my kids, although it's true that responsibilities have increased.

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.

My biggest financial fear is dying and not leaving enough to see my daughter through to adulthood and financial independence.

In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

I tried to do things independently with each child.

For the Fabers, isolating Leslie in a program for the retarded helped protect her, but only for the six hours of the school day. The rest of the time, they could only hope their child had enough judgment to stay out of trouble. No matter what precautions they took, parents could never be sure.

It was a moment parents of a retarded daughter dread: their child out there on her own, drowning in the rough seas of male adolescent sexuality. Their child, whose idea of a friend is someone who play with her nicely, trying to be friends with a bunch of guys whose idea of play is pornography and voyeurism. It wasn't an even match.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

even at the park the mothers got tired of calling their own children away from ours as if they might catch leprosy very small children don't care about skin colour, Rachel, until they're brainwashed by their parents

Danny-Boy, I want to tell him, unlike you flawless teenagers, we adults can be contradictory fools. We fuck up. Sorry to fall off the Pedestal of Perfection, Sonny-Jim, but all we trying a-do is stop you from fucking up too.

when Yazz talks about her unusual upbringing to people, the unworldly ones expect her to be emotionally damaged from it, like how can you not be when your mum's a polyamorous lesbian and your father's a gay narcissist (as she describes him), and you were shunted between both their homes and dumped with various godparents while your parents pursued their careers? this annoys Yazz who can't stand people saying anything negative about her parents that's her prerogative

Had my child been a clergyman's probably he would have been strangled at birth.

You can't expect a child not to become a product of his environment. If you're a drinker, you'll raise a drunk. If you're a single mother, traipsing men in and out of your bedroom in front of your girl child - mark my words, in time she'll claim a corner and charge money for what you gave away for free. Kings and queens raise princes and princesses. That's just the way it is.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

But even the most general ideas of God should not be forced on a childish mind; they should come, so to speak, by chance; they should be presented in answer to some demand of the child's heart; they should be inculcated by stray words and passing remarks; they should form the atmosphere surrounding the child habitually, and not be a sudden "wind of doctrine."

When sharing your news, you might come across some disgruntled parent-folk. You know, the kind who snort and say ruefully, "If there's anyplace you want to travel to, go now." Don't let them squelch your joy, dear K: these are the kind of people who never went anywhere before they had babies either.

With toddlers around, times are always interesting.