Quotes About Parenting

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes.

Tiger father begets tiger son.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

To see awe in a parent's eyes—it is a strange, lonely feeling.

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

The one thing my mom will let me get is a nice shoe sometimes.

The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

Our son Barney was about to be born when I started, [this book] and will start school about the time this is going to press. When I told him I was a writer and not a firefighter, he said:" but writers don't do anything.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Mary had written the names of her thirty-one children on brown luggage labels and looped them through the top buttonholes of their overcoats. Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn't yet made the effort to become tall.

He wouldn't give up, but if i am strict and force myself now to decide upon the precise moment in this whole story when my heart irreparably broke, it was the moment when I saw the weariness and the doubt creep into my son's small muscles as his fingers slipped, for the tenth time, from the pale oak lid.

Man with Brain the Size of Tic Tac Mates with Amoeba Couple gives birth to giant adjusto; names him Dale

As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid.

So you didn't tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . ." "Because experience is the only teacher," Hey-Soos says. "Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don't listen to their parents, or people don't leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There's only one thing that's universal." "What's that?" "The truth.

When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'

You're not exactly the father I'd choose for my children. (Coco Chanel)

Teachings are given to different men under different circumstances and in different times... [but] ...the Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. If a parent commands a little child not to play with matches, and then commands a teenager to light the campfire, is this a contradiction? It's only a question of preparedness - one is ready and one is not.

If there is anything I've learned being the mother of many children, it's that you'd better laugh at yourself, because everyone else already is.

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.