673 Quotes About Parenthood

Parenting is insane. Even without any added financial burdens or depression, parenting is a circus. It's every extreme emotion all bottled up, shaken together like a strong cocktail, and then chugged by our brain cells. Parenthood is happy and sad, fulfilling and draining. It makes us feel like superhero one second and a total failure the next. Parenting is complicated. Very, very complicated.

We don't have to be perfect in our parenting, just purposeful.

The best thing you can teach a child is to say sorry for the mistake instead of defending

With Zugunruhe comes the sign that you can trust your heart and mind.

Be genuinely selfless and give your kids the courage to go after their dreams.

A child is not a carpet or a sofa that can lie just anywhere and not feel a thing. It needs love and caring and I don’t want it to have a father like you.

Ahhh! Privacy! Did the self-inscriber intend to write for future readership? Some diarists I include in my book appear to – one even writing an entry to the future. In "The Power of Diaries: Interview with Jane Perry, Author of White Snake Diary" from Paula Whitacre Blog, February 20, 2020: a palindrome!

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

Sometimes we forget that parenting, like love, is a verb.