2,497 Quotes About Parenting

It’s disappointing when your child doesn’t agree with you, especially when you know you’re right, but it’s also hugely exciting. Discussing that film defined our differences in a way nothing quite had before, and never so easily or naturally. I loved my daughter even more, if that was possible, for who she was, who I could see her becoming. And I like to think she added a little bit of ballast to her already crowded cargo hold of tolerant affection for Mom.

Some technologies have made it possible for one to travel to the other side of the world in order to see something, whereas some technologies have made that unnecessary: if it were not for things such as the camera and the internet, some African boys would have never seen a Chinese woman’s vagina.

What's making us uncomfortable...is this feeling of losing control - a feeling that instantiates itself in a dozen different ways each day, such as when we tune out with our phone during our child's bath time, or lose our ability to enjoy a nice moment without a frantic urge to document it for a virtual audience.

When they are little you are the hero, when they grow up you are a monster and when they are old you are their pride! —Metamorphosis of Parenthood

[H]is living room is everything I'd imagined it to be, styled by his wife, wrecked by his kids, like a Lord of the Flies stage set, only taupe and with scatter cushions.

The thing our generation taught to the previous generation is that we cannot be controlled by anger. We are driven by love.

Multitasking is just a byproduct of being a good parent.

How do you differentiate between a parent's love and a parent's responsibility? Because one thing is sure, those two ain’t the same.

A family who laughs together blesses each other.