673 Quotes About Parenthood

i didn’t want kids back when i was a kid,changing my brothers’ stinky nappies at 7 years old&i haven’t changed me mind&if i’m ever unsure,just remember thatuncertainty is certainly rejection

When a parent dies, for those left behind it can feel as though half the sky has fallen. My father was the sheltering sky, and beneath his mild firmament no storm ever raged, no hard rain fell.

And it's a girl. And you will love her more than you love yourself. And you'll disappoint her, too—and never live up to the standards you set for yourself. But don't worry. She'll be okay.

She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.

I could read my nonexistence in the clothes my mother had worn before I can remember her.

Being a person is not nearly as overrated as having played a part in the initiation of the process that has led to the being of a person.

I have these two different images of her etched into my memory: one as this idealized mother, and the other as a sort of pressure weighing down on me - obsessive, feminine love.

But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody’s mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue

Know the rules of child rearing!!Rule one: Physical strength!Rule two: Physical strength!There are no rules three or four, but rule five is physical strength!