Parenting Quotes

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.

Susan Cain

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

Todd Tiahrt

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The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.

Riccardo Sabatini

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What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Marlee Matlin

ParentingParentEasyNeverObstacle

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Kenny G

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The desire to keep television out of our son's life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed on from the beginning. We debated the pros and cons of co-sleeping, of pacifiers, of chemical-free crib mattresses and baby sign language. The television question, on the other hand, was a no-brainer.

Kim Brooks

LifeSonParentingBeginningBaby

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

James E. Faust

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I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.

Glennon Doyle Melton

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A lot of kids have parents who say, 'Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.' Whenever I hear that kind of 'advice,' I think it's bad parenting. I was lucky to have a parent who assured me it was a possibility to pursue music.

Gerald Clayton

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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

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I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

Eric McCormack

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Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.

Jennifer Nettles

MotherMyselfChallengeParentingMe

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

Emily Oster

ParentingYourselfThinkThinking

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.

Andrew Solomon

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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

ParentingFinancialBehaviorReward

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

ParentingFeelStudyInformed

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

Billy Graham

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I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Matthew Perry

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There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

Ayelet Waldman

LifeNatureParentingJobChildYou

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

Meryl Streep

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I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

Alan Alda

LiveArtParentingEnoughMeaning

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

Amy Chua

ParentingBalanceThinkFindDone

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

Red Skelton

ParentingYouRunWillAskKid

Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other.

Stephanie Coontz

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