Parenting Quotes

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.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, …

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off th…

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.