Parenting Quotes

Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom!

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You'll see. That's the way it was for Bill and me. It's one of the many gifts of parenting.

~ Michael J. Fox

A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I lecture my kids I'm doing much the same thing. I'm not trying to necessarily reason with them, just hold them still for a short while.

~ Spuds Crawford

Science and discovery, especially in the field of non-abnormal pediatric mysteries, is built on the work of those who have been sneezed on before us. Causation and rationale may someday be reached, but until then it is the heartwarming and parental nature of the journey that drives us on; well, that and a fresh box of Kleenex.

~ Spuds Crawford

As a young father it's important to remember that, when you're at the beach, there's a BIG difference between telling your five year old son to just go pee in the ocean and telling him to get in the water at least waist deep and then pee in the ocean.

~ Spuds Crawford

A challenging career suddenly seemed more productive to me because I could measure the results of my work. These precious little ones had endless needs. They were busy little sinful creatures who demanded all of my body, time, life, emotions, and attention! As much as I loved my children, I often felt like a failure. Surely someone else could do a better job with these precious ones than I. And what exactly was I supposed to be accomplishing anyway? Was I wasting my time? What had this husband, who professed to love me, done to me?

~ Sally Clarkson

When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like to feel comfortable in their own skin and to find their path in the world. They want their kids to develop their own tastes and opinions. In fact, French parents worry if their kids are too docile. They want them to have chara

~ Pamela Druckerman

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.

~ Irene Tomkinson

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

~ Zadie Smith

I had been running as fast as I could for all of my adult life. A person can’t listen effectively while running. A running mother is not able to pick up clues. She is not able to let go of her own agenda long enough to stop and listen.

~ Irene Tomkinson

Adoption is grief in reverse.

~ Jody Cantrell Dyer

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

~ Robert Evans

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

~ Billy Graham

Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.

~ Bill Goldberg

People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.

~ Meghan Daum

Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

~ Bill O'reilly