Quotes About Parenting

A Real man takes care of his kids no matter what the relationship is with the mother of his child...

My promise to my Kids: I am not your friend. I am your Mother. I will stalk you, flip out on you, lecture you, drive you insane, be your worst nightmare & hunt you down like a bloodhound when needed because I LOVE YOU! When you understand that, I will know you are a responsible adult. You will never find someone who loves, prays, cares and worries about you more than I do!

A parents love is whole, no matter how many times divided.

The hours my husband works makes me feel like a single parent, which I never want to be...

As a single parent who is dating, make your child your priority. Make this known to the person you are dating.

The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.

Its not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

Remember that the task of a single mom is not a joke. It is very difficult for children to be raised by both parent. How much more a single mother? You have to be ready for this great task and never try to unleash your frustration on your children.

Single working moms are teaching their kids a solid work ethic; you're teaching them that we don't just have things handed to us, and have to work for the things we want.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

As a single mom you have to play the roles of both a mother as well as a father. This is the most difficult aspect of being a single mom apart from the financial challenges. You have to pamper your precious children as a mother and also scold them like a father when they go wrong.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

About these times, my father says that he wishes he had made better decisions. That the burden of raising us alone led him to favor strict regimens and that he wasn't able to talk about his emotions. In retrospect, there is a lot he wishes he'd done differently.

Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership.

The good father does not have to be perfect . Rather, he has to be good enough to help his daughter to become a woman who is reasonably self-confident, self-sufficient, and free of crippling self-doubt, and to feel at ease in the company of men.

It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men.

A girl's sense of her womanly self depends only in part on how closely she has followed her mother's example in attire and actions, or how much she loves or hates or respects her. It is from both parents that a girl gains her basic identity.

Parental neglect even in intact families, can have a shattering effect on how daughters- even those with loving mothers- feel about men.

My parents did not grant me so much as an allowance. When I had asked for one in the fourth grade, my father had frowned and said, "Let me think it over." The next night he handed me an itemized list of expenses that included my birth, feeding, education, and clothing, the sum total being $24,376. "This doesn't include emotional aggravation, compound interest, or future expenses," my father said. "Now when can you start paying me an allowance?

Don't marry a man who doesn't love his mother and a woman who hasn't been a good daughter.

Don't teach your children how to walk on the path of life, but teach them what the path is made up of?

Don't tell your children how to live, live and let them watch you do it.