Parenting Quotes - Page 12

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to follow.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

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

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

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.

~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.