Parenting Quotes

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

Michael Spence

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Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

Pamela Adlon

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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.

Lisa Whelchel

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I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

Nancy Jo Sales

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Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Dennis Miller

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Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.

Irene Rosenfeld

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My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

Chelsea Clinton

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I think there's different parenting styles.

Farrah Abraham

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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

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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

Carl Honore

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My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

Brene Brown

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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

Dale Archer

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There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Anthony Edwards

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Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

Wylie Dufresne

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Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

Sundar Pichai

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People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith.

Ty Burrell

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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

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In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Martin Jacques

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Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

Lewis Black

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I don't want to believe it - that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other, that there is something inherently selfish and greedy and darkly obsessive in the desire to care as much about the thing you are writing or making as you do about the other humans in your life. What parent would want to believe this?

Kim Brooks

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The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

Henry Reed

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Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

Gordon Neufeld

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I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.

Jodi Benson

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