673 Quotes About Parenthood

You don’t have the right to reproduce, unless you are doing your part to reduce carbon emission. Reproduction is an animal tenet but for it to be a human right, the human must carry out the duties that go along with reproduction, that is to make sure the newborns actually have a healthy world to live in, not one infested with disease and geopolitical conflicts.

If you want to leave something for your children, leave a better world, not heaps of money, because at the rate our ancestors screwed up this world and at the rate we are sustaining their stupidity in our pursuit of limitless productivity, soon all the money in the world will not be enough to save our children from imminent disaster.

It is through the child’s eyes and ears, not genes, that he or she gets, from his or her parents, things such as humility and intolerance.

Quite often, when we think we are listening, all we are doing is waiting for a gap for an opportunity to speak back; we use our energy to compose our responses or our reply rather than to try to understand what the other person is trying to communicate,

Quite often, when we would prefer that something wasn't happening or hadn't happened, we lie by omission to our children. It it natural to want to protect our children from difficult feelings , but it is not their feelings that are a problem, it is our being terrified of their feelings that's the problem.

Cheers to those who understand what it’s like to get a nasty text from a person whose phone they’re paying for… and not completely lose their sh!t.

It is more useful to make a meaning like that about childcare than it is to look around the mess in your home and feel you have nothing to show, no results, for your day's work. The results will come, just not at the end of every single day, like they might in other types of work. When we adopt the habit of impact on use, parenting does become rewarding.

Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

What I didn't know to expect is that today, I would feel like I'd been born too. You have made a new person: January's father. And I know this is who I will be for the rest of my life.