Parenting Quotes

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy ma…

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a p…

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experien…

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, w…

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a …

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to …

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they …

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are …

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastr…

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.