Parenting Quotes

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

^{Emily Oster}

219. My approach to parenting is that everything is open – everything. I’m not very good at covert, or subtle, and I’ve had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

^{Dawn French}

220. If two very different people pool their DNA, they’ll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

^{Helen Fisher}

221. My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

^{Michele Bachmann}

222. I don’t claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

223. I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

^{Steven Spielberg}

224. The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

^{Jessica Valenti}

225. Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

^{George Will}

226. I love, love, love being an actor – it’s still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I’ve always been someone who likes a busy day.

^{Sarah Jessica Parker}

227. I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.

^{Kourtney Kardashian}

228. We go into parenting, and we discover that we don’t have the answers. We are at a loss.

^{Julia Cameron}

229. My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

^{Kym Whitley}

230. I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that’s: ‘Don’t take other people’s advice on parenting.’

^{Drew Lachey}

231. From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

232. 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}

233. As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you’re doing the best you can, and God bless.

^{Emma McLaughlin}

234. Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

^{Simon Van Booy}

235. 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}

236. It’s difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what’s good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That’s the hardest.

^{Anthony Edwards}

237. Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

^{Melissa Rivers}

238. The children who are ‘our future’ will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

^{Virginia Postrel}

239. 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}

240. Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

^{Jenna Morasca}

241. I’m doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

^{Josie Bissett}

242. I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I’m really a paddler on a beach.

^{Tamsin Greig}

243. Some have said that ‘Frankenstein’ is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

^{Dave Morris}

244. I’m not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges – which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

^{Stacey D’Erasmo}

245. Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.

^{Juhi Chawla}

246. The way I was parented did affect my parenting – probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

^{Alan Thicke}

247. In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

^{Don Willett}

248. I don’t think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I’m pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.

^{W. Bruce Cameron}

249. 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}

250. I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it’s dark outside? You can’t expect a baby to know that he’s supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed.

^{Holly Marie Combs}

251. As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It’s like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

^{Essie Davis}

252. Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

^{Andrew Solomon}

253. Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren’t equal, and that doesn’t help anyone.

^{Christine Tsai}

254. Today’s new age parenting guarantees you’ll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.

^GloZell

255. In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

^{Laura Moser}

256. The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, ‘When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.’

^{Daniel Bryan}

257. I think there’s different parenting styles.

^{Farrah Abraham}

258. Once you’ve taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn’t add much information.

^{Robert J. Waldinger}

259. Growing up, I’ve always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture.

^{Kelly Marie Tran}

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

^{Pamela Adlon}

261. If I meet a wise person, I think, ‘Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me more about how to be a decent person living in a world that’s filled with chaos.’

^{Min Jin Lee}

262. In parenthood, there’s so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there’s so much fear around technology.

^{Rosemarie DeWitt}

263. Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.

^{Emily V. Gordon}

264. Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.

^{Rachel Simmons}

265. 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}

266. Parenting definitely has some challenging moments.

^{Tamera Mowry}

267. Cohabitation itself doesn’t cause ineffective parenting.

^{Stephanie Coontz}

268. Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

^{Stephanie Coontz}

269. With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.

^{Rumaan Alam}

270. Parenting is love, sure, but it’s as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.

^{Rumaan Alam}

271. I’ve got letters from all over the world saying what you’re describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting.

^{Pamela Druckerman}