2,497 Quotes About Parenting

Parenting is insane. Even without any added financial burdens or depression, parenting is a circus. It's every extreme emotion all bottled up, shaken together like a strong cocktail, and then chugged by our brain cells. Parenthood is happy and sad, fulfilling and draining. It makes us feel like superhero one second and a total failure the next. Parenting is complicated. Very, very complicated.

Do not sugar coat everything for your children, or they will grow up with cracked outer shells and soft insides.

~ 'Can you please not say “Your mother” or “Your father” when you talk about each other?’ I promised her I wouldn’t, and I never have (not as easy as I thought).

Chinese parenting summed up in one word: guilt-tripping.

We don't have to be perfect in our parenting, just purposeful.

I AM A CHILD, NOT A SINK FOR YOUR FRUSTRATIONS

Is that where the angels go?" I looked deep into the hole [at ground 0 in NYC]... "Is that hole for the angels to go get the people who died?

...the small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Biology does not make a man a father--nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.