Quotes About Parenting

When I was 12, I used to ride my scooter two miles to a comics shop, which I can't imagine letting my kids do by themselves through the city.

Chip is like that kid, like the five-year-old kid that's trying to make his mom breakfast, and there's milk everywhere.

I don't know what happened to the millennials. I think too much coddling is not a good thing.

Another advantage millennials have over us Gen-Xers are the dads. They're engaged, involved and not afraid to strap on a Baby Bjorn.

It's incredibly rewarding to have people come up to me at readings and say, 'I'm not Chinese, but this is the relationship I have with my mother.' Or say, 'Your book made me think a lot about my parents, and I've decided to sign up for counseling.' That is mind-boggling.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.

I am not close minded at all to having more children.

As parents, we must be mindful that our actions are matching our words.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.' So I'll have kids one day.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

I put my parents through mini hell with my laziness and poor grades, so I love making them laugh when they see me on television. When I work, I'm always thinking, 'Would my mother find this funny?' The belly-laugh jokes will hit her every time.

I can change a No. 1 diaper in 30 seconds and a No. 2 in a minute.

Being a father is just great. I love every minute - even the rubbish, middle-of-the night stuff.

You never blame the tree, yet we blame our son.

Refuting the simplistic statement that "ADHD is caused by bad parenting" avoids a more complex argument (given in chapter 7) that adverse factors such as physical abuse or trauma in a child's home environment can impair neurological development and be linked to ADHD symptoms.

Children are begotten by their parents out of sheer malice and dragged into the world out of the greatest imaginable inconsiderateness.

Dünyaya getirilir, ama yetiÅŸtirilmeyiz. Bizi dünyaya getirenler, yaratt?klar? yeni insan? yok etmek için gereken her türlü beceriksizliÄŸi ve ak?ls?zl??? yapar.

Ana baba, bizzat kendileri olan felaketi çocuklar?nda sürdürdüklerini çok iyi bilirler çocuk yapmay? ve onlar? yaÅŸam makinesinin içine atmay? haince sürdürürler.

the holiest parent begets unholy children, and cannot communicate their grace to them, as they do their nature; which many godly parents find true, in their sad experience.

Psychologists have known for some time that rewarding desirable responses is generally more effective in shaping behavior than punishing undesirable responses.19 However, the average person tends to find this fact surprising, and punishment has been the preferred reinforcer for the majority of parents in both modern society19 and in earlier periods.