Parenting Quotes - page 2

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first. (Dale Archer)
I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.' View quote
Drew Lachey
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press. View quote
Henry Reed
I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into. View quote
Hector Elizondo
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!' View quote
Ian Dunbar
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up. View quote
Jillian Michaels
I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit. View quote
Lisa Whelchel
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! View quote
Louise Hart
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have. View quote
Mel Carnahan
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. View quote
Padma Lakshmi
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)
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine. View quote
Sebastian Coe
Some men dont want to be responsible fathers. Its easier to say Lets just turn the kids over to the state. Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting. View quote
Tim Huelskamp
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals. View quote
Emma Thompson
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. View quote
Clive Owen
Three boys. I think it's less about parenting now for me and more about crowd control. View quote
Victoria Beckham
As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights. View quote
Jim Gaffigan
...people always said that parenting and worrying were synonymous... View quote
Nicholas Sparks
So many people these days, it seemed, believed that these things (personal fulfillment and self-esteem) could come only from work, not from parenting, and many people believed that having children had nothing to do with raising them. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
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. View quote
Edie Falco
parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat. (Jodi Picoult)
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves. View quote
Jodi Picoult
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. View quote
Virginia Satir
Food is, for me, for everybody, a very sexual thing and I think I realised that quite early on. I still cannot exaggerate how just putting a meal in front of somebody is really more of a buzz for me than anything. And I mean anything. Maybe that goes back to trying to please my dad, I don't know. It's like parenting in a way I suppose. View quote
Nigel Slater
People have expected less of movies and have been willing to settle for less. Some have even been willing to settle for Kramer vs. Kramer and other pictures that seem to be made for an audience of over-age flower children. These pictures express the belief that if a man cares about anything besides being at home with the kids, he's corrupt. Parenting ennobles Dustin Hoffman and makes him a better person in every way, while in The Seduction of Joe Tynan we can see that Alan Alda is a weak, corruptible fellow because he wants to be President of the United States more than he wants to stay at home communing with his daughter about her adolescent miseries. Pictures like these should all end with the fathers and the children sitting at home watching TV together. View quote
Pauline Kael