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Quotes About Parenting

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
~ Pat Boone
Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].
~ Laura Schlessinger
You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.
~ Reese Witherspoon
My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.
~ Kevin Hart
Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
~ Erica Jong
Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie's up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior year. Kid Rock is passed out in a hotel room somewhere with four scantily-clad women.
~ Kid Rock
Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.
~ Warren Farrell
I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.
~ Emily VanCamp
The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.
~ Jessica Valenti
We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.
~ John Krasinski
A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.
~ Laura Schlessinger
A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.
~ Laura Schlessinger
If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.
~ Laura Schlessinger
The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.
~ Laura Schlessinger
We accept women being complete c-nts if they're doing it for a child.
~ Natalie Dormer
Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I used to walk into a party and scan the room for attractive women. Now I look for women to hold my baby so I can eat potato salad sitting down.
~ Paul Reiser
The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's "or." That's offensive to me. The concept that it's not possible is crazy.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.
~ Tim Allen
I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
~ Warren Farrell
How to raise sons who respect women:Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.
~ Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.
~ Sebastian Thrun