Quotes About Parenting

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.

As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism.

Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.

I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim th? innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.

I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.

I'm jealous of my parents, I'll never have a kid as cool as theirs.

I'm done being the mature one in this co-parenting relationship!

She wants you to be a god,' I told him. 'I know.' His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

All heroes are fools, he liked to say. What he meant was, all heroes but me. So who could correct him when he erred? He had stood on the beach looking at Telegonus and believing him a pirate. He had stood in his hall and accused Telemachus of conspiracy. Two children he had had, and he had not seen either clearly. But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

I lifted my hand in blessing and gave my son to the world.

After I was born, he tried to keep me inside as much as he could.

Pero quizá ningún progenitor sea capaz de ver realmente a sus hijos. Cuando los miramos vemos únicamente el reflejo de nuestros propios recuerdos

Mas talvez nenhum pai consiga ver seus filhos de verdade. Quando olhamos, enxergamos apenas o espelho de nossas próprias falhas.

Aber vielleicht können Eltern ihre Kinder nicht wirklich sehen. Wenn wir hinsehen, sehen wir nur das Spiegelbild unserer eigenen Fehler.

Pero quizá ningún progenitor sea capaz de ver realmente a sus hijos. Cuando los miramos vemos únicamente el reflejo de nuestros propios defectos.