Parenting Quotes

104. 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}

105. We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

^{John Sculley}

106. No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised anadolescent.

^{Marcelene Cox}

107. There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

^{Andrew Shue}

108. If you’re financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

^{Suze Orman}

109. Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him – he didn’t try to be our best friend.

^{Stephen Mangan}

110. Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

^{Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach}

111. I think I’m going to have to live vicariously through my daughter’s rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

^{Brooke Shields}

112. It’s a huge change for your body. You don’t even want to look in the mirror after you’ve had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

^{Cindy Crawford}

113. Mothers – especially single mothers – are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation’s children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families’ well-being.

^{Evan Bayh}

114. Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

^{Ben Shapiro}

115. Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

^{Joyce Meyer}

116. 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}

117. Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

^{Jennifer Aniston}

118. I’m tired but grateful: choosing to blend parenting and public service has made me a more confident mother and a better legislator.

^{Michelle Wu}

119. The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.

^{Ewan McGregor}

120. Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

^{Harrison Ford}

121. 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}

122. I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

^{Amy Chua}

123. I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

^{Kourtney Kardashian}

124. So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

^{Uma Thurman}

125. All children will do things that you may not want them to. That’s part of parenting.

^{Carl Hart}

126. I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.

^{Barbara Bush}

127. Parenting is different for everybody.

^{LaVar Ball}

128. If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what ‘good’ parenting means.

^{Fred Rogers}

129. Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it’s much more complicated than that.

^{Essie Davis}

130. In many ways, I don’t think journalism is any different from banking. And I don’t think that banking is any different from parenting.

^{Stephanie Ruhle}

131. My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.

^{Andrew Lincoln}

132. No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.

^{Alan Arkin}

133. To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

^{Amy Chua}

134. I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

^{Robert Winston}

135. People ask me how I’ve raised three children as a single parent but honestly, parenting has been a breeze.

^{Reham Khan}

136. With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.

^{Jo Swinson}

137. Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

^{Carrie-Anne Moss}

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

^{Irene Rosenfeld}

139. I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

^{Mayim Bialik}

140. The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.

^{Angela Duckworth}

141. Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child’s friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.

^GloZell

142. I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

^{Barry Humphries}

143. There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

^{Ben Carson}

144. Parenting isn’t just parenting your own child.

^{Lewis Black}

145. I think parenting is very different now. We’re totally governed by our children!

^{Andy Serkis}

146. Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

^{Brene Brown}

147. I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960’s, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

^{Audre Lorde}

148. What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

^{Virginia Satir}

149. Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

^{Mel Carnahan}

150. I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman’s kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that’s the case, that’s good parenting.

^{Amy Chua}

151. Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father’s view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

^{W. Bruce Cameron}

152. As a mother living in poverty, I don’t expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.

^{Stephanie Land}

153. My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls intoplace.

^{Ben Falcone}

154. Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

^{Erica Jong}

155. Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.

^{Tori Amos}

156. You know, parenting is so personal. And we’re all afraid that we didn’t quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we – what if we made a mistake?

^{Amy Chua}

157. My daughter’s position in our household is definitely higher than mine. I listen to her a lot. I guess you can say that’s my parenting style.

^{Zhao Wei}

158. The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

^{Louise Hart}

159. We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn’t fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn’t look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

^{Adam Mansbach}

160. It’s hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children’s book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

^{Adam Mansbach}

161. Parenting is tough.

^{Kate Middleton}