Quotes About Parenting

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

I remember that the first time I looked at my son, of course I felt love. But I think the first feeling was not love: it was fear. Someone is needing me. If something happens to him, what am I going to do? Maybe I won't survive if something happens to him? The fear was as big as the love.

I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and you make it easy on them, they won't learn anything, and then they will walk around life needing their mamas all the time, and that isn't attractive.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

Nobody wants to admit their kid is the one with lice. Not only because of the work involved in getting rid of them, but because lice are still associated with dirt, grime, neglect and often poverty.

My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so that they could play against each other.

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

The first time I had to hold a baby, I was really nervous, but I soon grew in confidence.

Actually I did not hold the baby immediately because I was not confident of myself. I was initially nervous to hold him, so I had to wait for a few days before I could a feel of him.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

I don't do well with my children leaving the nest.

I guess with a Netflix show, if you're a kid, it's all dependent on how you're raised and if you have access to it.

If I feel my child is being deprived of anything that could affect her progress as a person, then I become extremely neurotic and douse the situation with as much help as humanly possible.

I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.

It's difficult when you have a new baby but, at the same time, a nice distraction.

I'm the kind of guy who wants to be involved in everything concerning our new baby. I don't want to miss a thing.

So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.

From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.

I'm at an age now where I have a newborn baby and me and my wife want to settle. I'm tired of going on loan.

When fathers are not present, government becomes the 'baby daddy' and conservative social values are harder to pass on to the next generation.

My daughters have become little judges. If I do produce a baked item, they tut at the soggy bottom and advise me to try harder next time.