Quotes About Parenting

No dates until you're sixteen. And no boyfriends, either.' I'm not quite sure how to tell Mom, but it looks like I don't just have one boyfriend. I have two.

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

There is no grater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.

A child certainly allows himself to be impressed by the grand talk of his parents," wrote Jung "but do they really imagine he is educated by it? Actually it is the parents' lives that educate the child – what they add by word at best serves only to confuse him.

As long as there are parents preparing children for little more than incarceration, we'll have no trouble keeping our prisons full.

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

children died that same week at the hands of a parent, just like every week—and most of them were under 5 years old. Four million luckier children were physically abused last year

Your suspicion alone is more than enough justification for preventing time alone with your child. You

As parent and child advocate Anna McDonnell says, "To have a child is to have the chance to revisit your own childhood and self, and sometimes to make changes that have been needed for a long while." Trained for decades to interact with men in ways that serve the patriarchy, the new mother must answer to no man if doing so might place her or her child at risk.

Many parents think it does. When they want to underscore the importance of a given instruction, they attach some dreadful outcome to it: "Come right home; you don't want to get kidnapped," "Don't go there alone; remember, anyone could be a killer," and on and on. There

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness.

But early on, adults start sending them contradictory. They'll give a kid a stuffed animal to hug and love and sleep with at the same time, they're serving them animals for dinner every night you think about it. But when you're young, you just accept what they tell you as the truth.

The solution of adult problems tomorrow depends in large measure upon the way our children grow up today. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves. —MARGARET MEAD

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Your mother is probably right," Dad said. "Social services frowns on drunk ten-year-ols. Besides, when I dropped my drumsticks and puked onstage, it was punk. If you drop your bow and smell like a brewery, it will look gauche. You classical-music people are so snobby that way.

My dad used to say that when I was born I looked so totally familiar

Siempre me ha dicho que me quiere como a una hija, pero ahora que ha perdido a la suya es distinto.

Mom perched on the edge of our sofa, her forehead etched with a line of concern I'd grown to know well. It was the same one she'd flashed at me when I pointed to the twisty slide, the same one she'd pulled out when I'd taken up Tae Kwon Do in third grade, and the same one that had frozen on her features all through driver's ed last spring. It was her SMother face.

Marcus: Cherry? Jillian: My ten-year-old niece. Marcus: She's named after a piece of fruit? Jillian nodded. Jillian: So is her twin sister, Apple. Marcus: You're kidding me. Jillian: Unfortunately, I'm serious. Their father is fond of fruit pies and thought it would be cute. Marcus: And their mother didn't protest? Jillian: She thinks Steven's cute, so she gives him whatever he wants.

When you and your daughter pass a teenager with a ring in her nose and purple hair and you say, "What an idiot," your daughter knows what you're doing, even if you'd deny it to yourself. You're sending out a message that she'd better not even dream of piercing her body or dyeing her hair. She knows you're trying to persuade her, and she may react by resolving not to be persuaded.

I feel like marching into my parents' room and shaking my mom. How could you send her to that place without her blanket?

Now I'm five foot eleven and a half inches—as tall as my mom and a good two inches taller than my dad. My father tells people I've grown so much, he's going to put my supper into pickle jars and sell it under the name Incredible Growth Formula.

Not having children is seen as supremely selfish, as though the people having children were selflessly sacrificing themselves in a valiant attempt to ensure the survival of our endangered species and fill up this vast and underpopulated island of ours.