Famous Quotes
- A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
- Frank A. Clark on Parenting
- A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
- Billy Graham on Parenting
- A mother who is really a mother is never free.
- Honore De Balzac on Parenting
- A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
- Bill Cosby on Parenting
- Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
- Robert Casey on Parenting
- 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 machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
- Sloane Crosley on Parenting
- Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on Parenting
- At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
- Jane D. Hull on Parenting
- Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
- Mayim Bialik on Parenting
- 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 differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.
- Temple Grandin on Parenting
- Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
- Robbie Coltrane on Parenting
- Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
- Bob Filner on Parenting
- Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
- Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
- Laura Schlessinger on Parenting
- 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, cohabiting homes.
- Todd Tiahrt on Parenting
- 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.
- Stevie Nicks on Parenting
- 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, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.
- Eliot Spitzer on Parenting
- Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
- Russell Baker on Parenting
- Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
- Charles R. Swindoll on Parenting
- Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
- Milton Sapirstein on Parenting
- Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
- Ron Taffel on Parenting
- Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
- Liam Neeson on Parenting
- Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
- Alan Thicke on Parenting
- Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
- Robert Cormier on Parenting
- Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
- Allan Bloom on Parenting
- Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
- Doug Larson on Parenting
- For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
- For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.
- Michael Showalter on Parenting
- Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
- Miriam Makeba on Parenting
- 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.
- Matthew Broderick on Parenting
- Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
- Martin Mull on Parenting
- Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
- Ryan Phillippe on Parenting
- How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
- 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.
- Mary J. Blige on Parenting
- I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
- Mayim Bialik on Parenting
- I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
- Sigmund Freud on Parenting
- 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.
- Beverly Cleary on Parenting
- 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.
- Reese Witherspoon on Parenting
- I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.
- Roseanne Barr on Parenting
- I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
- Norma Shearer on Parenting
- I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.
- Ryan Phillippe on Parenting
- I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
- Susie Bright on Parenting
- I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.
- Joan Lunden on Parenting
- I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
- Mayim Bialik on Parenting
- 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 more tough on their boyfriends.
- Tim McGraw on Parenting
- I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
- Debra Winger on Parenting
- I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.
- Mika Brzezinski on Parenting
- I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
- Tina Turner on Parenting
- I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
- Robert Orben on Parenting
- I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
- Joan Cusack on Parenting
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