2,497 Quotes About Parenting

If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.

It’s a mistake to believe that they (parents) are responsible for their children’s best future. This responsibility is on their children, and that’s the message they should be conveying to their children on a daily basis.

It’s entirely on our children to build their best futures. Not on us, parents. And we should be imprinting this message on our children’s brains from as early as possible.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm.

My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a month? I don't know. It sounds about right to me. (Almost all the specific advice in parenting books is similarly arbitrary. At least I admit it.)

I believe there are no wrong decisions, just different consequences.

It’s not their (parents’) job to prevent their children from making mistakes, because mistakes are a normal part of our lives. It’s like preventing those children from having a real experience. A real life.

There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents.