Parenting Quotes

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be …

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabi…

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.