Quotes About Parenting

People who have kids are constantly boring the shit out of people who haven't. But they can't stand it if you tell them the truth – when I look at your life it makes me want to do anything but.

Por qué nadie ha inventado el equivalente a Ikea para cuidar a los niños, el equivalente de Macintosh para hacer las tareas domésticas? La organización de la colectividad sigue siendo una prerrogativa masculina.

In 1907 Edmund Gosse thought he had to leave his father to become himself; seventy years later Geoffrey Wolff knows he cannot leave his father because he has become his father.

Why he wants this child he never says, and she never asks. Obviously the miller's daughter is no more a responsible parent than her father is, for she agrees to the bargain.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

Children should neither be seen nor heard from – ever again.

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.

You're always a kid around your parents… Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance.

He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

I bought my son a bat for Christmas. On New Year's it flew away.

I bought my son an indestructible toy. Yesterday he left it in the driveway. It broke my car.

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

My kids are in front of the computer 247 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.

I want to be a cool mom.

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.