Quotes About Parenting

It is not your fault you believe what your parents tell you. It is theirs for telling you unbelievable things. -- ME

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

I don't really have an allowance. When I want to get something I just have to ask my mom.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

I think my daughter actually influences my style more than having boys. I tend to dress more masculine with pants or shorts or flat boots, and she makes me want to dress more stylish, more girly.

I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.

A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities to his family and to his children, do me a favor STOP calling yourself a man..at least have the decency to admit that you're a boy. You don't know what manhood is.

It's the close emotional bond we have with our children that makes them want to live lives we, their parents, can respect.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.