2,497 Quotes About Parenting

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound an effect on you as the way your children turn out. You will either rejoice and boast of their accomplishments or you will weep, head in hands, bereft and forlorn, if they become a disappointment or an embarrassment to you.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~