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Quotes About Responsibility

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
~ Stephen Covey
Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.
~ Ray Lewis
The world's greatest changes are made at home.
~ Wes Fesler
Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?
~ Lisa Kleypas
Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
~ Stephen Covey
If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.
~ Liane Moriarty
Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.
~ Laura Huxley
Always obey your parents - when they are present.
~ Mark Twain
Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
~ Warren Farrell
The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.
~ James Patterson
I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.
~ Shefali Tsabary
You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.
~ Alexis Denisof
Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.
~ Stephen King
I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.
~ Larkin Grimm
Parenting needs to come to the forefront.
~ Bill Cosby
Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?
~ Jim Gaffigan
Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Children make your lives a mess and set your priorities straight.
~ Adrianne Simeone
As I'm beginning to find out, parenting is no child's play, it couldSometimes determine whether couples continue to live together orgo their separate ways.
~ Oche Otorkpa
This is what parenting involved: hard decisions. She was his mother, she reminded herself. He didn't have to like her.
~ Paula Daly, The Trophy Child
Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.
~ Thomas Bernhard, Concrete
It is high time that we had a subject called Childrening, as we have one called Parenting!
~ Sandeep Sahajpal
A society needs to know when to forgive, but it also needs to know when to punish.
~ Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan