Famous Quotes
- Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
- Clive Owen on Parenting
- Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
- Alvin Toffler on Parenting
- Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
- Harrison Ford on Parenting
- Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.
- Jillian Michaels on Parenting
- Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
- Jennifer Aniston on Parenting
- Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
- Dennis Miller on Parenting
- Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
- Nancy Chodorow on Parenting
- Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
- Mel Carnahan on Parenting
- Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
- Christy Turlington on Parenting
- Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Ogden Nash on Parenting
- Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.
- Mayim Bialik on 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, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
- So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
- Uma Thurman on Parenting
- Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
- John Boehner on Parenting
- Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
- Kelly LeBrock on Parenting
- Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
- Arnold H. Glasow on Parenting
- That's my ideal day, time with my boys.
- The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
- Benjamin Spock on Parenting
- The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
- Kamisese Mara on Parenting
- The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
- Louise Hart on Parenting
- The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
- Meryl Streep on Parenting
- 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.
- Phil McGraw on Parenting
- The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
- Andrew Bernstein on Parenting
- The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
- Bill Cosby on Parenting
- The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
- Todd Tiahrt on Parenting
- There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
- Andrew Shue on Parenting
- There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
- Hodding Carter on Parenting
- 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, this is not just baby gloom.
- Marie Osmond on Parenting
- There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
- Anthony Edwards on Parenting
- To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
- Olivia Newton-John on Parenting
- 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 evaluate how you deal with your kids.
- Clive Owen on Parenting
- We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
- John Walters on Parenting
- We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
- Roy L. Smith on Parenting
- 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 the hook?
- Ellen Goodman on Parenting
- We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
- John Sculley on Parenting
- We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities.
- Fred G. Gosman on Parenting
- We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Parenting
- 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 different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
- Edie Falco on Parenting
- 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.
- Marjorie Holmes on Parenting
- What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
- Benjamin Spock on Parenting
- What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
- Virginia Satir on Parenting
- 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 experienced appropriate parenting.
- Jane Fonda on Parenting
- Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
- Erica Jong on Parenting
- You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
- Franklin P. Jones on Parenting
- You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.
- Connie Sellecca on Parenting
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