2,497 Quotes About Parenting

There is no better therapy than a hug from a child.

Children force parents to go out looking for a specific pulse, a gaze, a rhythm, the right way of telling the story, knowing that stories don't fix anything or save anyone but maybe make the world both more complex and more tolerable. And sometimes, just sometimes, more beautiful. Stories are a way of subtracting the future from the past, the only way of finding clarity in hindsight.

Life keeps on making the terrible mistake of making impatient people capable of making children.

Parenthood is some people’s subconscious revenge for having been brought into existence without their consent.

Some people would deem their parents or children ugly if they were not theirs.

Parenting isn't something you do. It's who you are. You are a mother. You are a father.

The newly out boy, Amber says, went back to school on Monday with new pronouns and a new name and a new bathroom and he lost zero friends because kids don’t give a fuck.Amber - Max’s MumReal Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

Our children will value our advice based on the example we’ve set, and the perseverance we’ve shown.

Raising our sons is among the most important social imprints we will leave on the world, for they will become the partners, husbands, fathers, friends, lovers, creators, and leaders of tomorrow.