Quotes About Parenting

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?

Real men change diapers!

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

There are two things you don't do: One, you don't open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don't jinx a man going for a perfect week.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

This fathering is a man's second chance at living.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.

You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion

If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

The particularities of your parents' limitations and dysfunctions became the imperfect "holding environment" you adjusted to. That adjustment, that adaptation, becomes your particular version of you and me consciousness, the imprint on your limbic system of your unique Adaptive Child.

Good parenting requires three elements: nurturing, limit setting, and guidance.

Pia Mellody, spoke of the Adaptive Child as a "kid in grown-up's clothing." The Adaptive Child is a child's version of an adult, the you that you cobbled together in the absence of healthy parenting. Here's a chart detailing the traits of the Adaptive Child, as distinct from the Wise Adult.

making a child into the family hero—the light all others depend upon—is a form of trauma.