2,497 Quotes About Parenting

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.