2,497 Quotes About Parenting

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we are responsible to anybody but our kids and ourselves.~

You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

~When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.~

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.