Quotes About Challenges

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.