Quotes About Parenting

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.