Quotes About Parenting

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

It is the role of a parent to stand in front of their children, and protect them even if their legs were to give out at any moment - Master Makarov

I was the fifth of seven children, five boys and two girls.

She said, 'Aren't you frightened for your daughter?' I told her, 'It is exactly because I am afraid for my daughter's future that I am going out.'

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.

No," Vivi told him in her somber little voice. "I'm never going anywhere with you." "I'm your father," he told her, his voice harsh, rising like the crack of a lash. "You are my heir and my blood, and you will obey me in this as in all things.

Do these two things every day for Huck: number one: make him feel good about himself, and, number two: allow him to figure out how to do things on his own. Those two simple steps. Every day. It's all he needs to plow forward and grow into a strong, happy man.

I don't buy that overused line about a woman's job making her a better mother. The children need more time. Everything in our home needs more time.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

there is something still more appalling than the ingratitude of daughters who have cast off their old father and wish that he were dead, and that is a rivalry between two sisters.

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

Why did the father of these poor girls, the Comte de Granville, a wise and upright magistrate (though sometimes led away by politics), refrain from protecting the helpless little creatures from such crushing despotism? Alas! by mutual understanding, about ten years after marriage, he and his wife were separated while living under one roof. The father had taken upon himself the education of his sons, leaving that of the daughters to his wife.

Ama toplum, anne olmaktan çok üvey annedir, gururunu ok?ayan çocuklar? sever.

Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Nothing and nobody could aggravate you the way your child could aggravate you.

Did anyone really know their child? Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. New personality traits could appear overnight.

It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

Little kids, little problems. Wait till you've got drugs and sex and social media to worry about.