Quotes About Parenting

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

We are so lucky to have our children, even for a little while, but we take them for granted. We make the stupid assumption that as long as we are here, they will be, too, though that's never been part of the contract.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent my hit a child--it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

If we are meant to only have children who never encounter difficulty in life, then no one should be born.

Everyone wants their kid to grow up and go to Harvard or be a quarterback for the Patriots. No one ever looks at their baby and thinks, Oh, I hope my kid grows up and becomes a freak. I hope he gets to school every day and prays he won't catch anyone's attention. But you know what? Kids grow up like that every single day.

When you look into your baby's eyes," Lacy said softly, "you see everything you hope they can be… not everything you wish they won't become.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask, 'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.

My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.

I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

I'm extremely proud of my daughter. She's done amazing work. She's worked on herself, which I think is important.

I want to work as hard as I can. But I also want six kids! It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids' lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation... life.

I rather be a single father, raising on my own. I'd hate to be a 'part-time' dad.

If there's one thing I learned as being a single father is to never bash the mother to your kid. Keep them out of it.

Life as a single father has taught me many things. Particularly that love only makes everything easier.

It's hard being a single father, but even harder being a child without a father.

Shout out to the single father's that have also taken the role of the mother. They don't get appreciated enough for what they do.