Quotes About Responsibility

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

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

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

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

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

Nurturing a child's sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child's life.

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

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?