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Parenting Quotes

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

– Harrison Ford

If two very different people pool their DNA, they’ll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

– Helen Fisher

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he’s genuinely interested in what she’s going through.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

– Henry Reed

A lot of kids have parents who say, ‘Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.’ Whenever I hear that kind of ‘advice,’ I think it’s bad parenting. I was lucky to have a parent who assured me it was a possibility to pursue music.

– Gerald Clayton

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

– Gilbert Highet

I’m a parent, especially when you’ve had the intense parenting the way I had. It’s all in the bank. It’s all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That’s the stuff that makes your work rich, that’s what you dip into.

– Hector Elizondo

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

– Hanna Rosin

Childhood is a short season.

– Helen Hayes

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn’t parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

– Gordon Neufeld

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

– Honore de Balzac

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

– Helena Bonham Carter

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.

– Jackie Kennedy

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as much, like you don’t go on as many outings.

– Hugh Jackman

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

– Henry Ward Beecher

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they’re proud of.

– Jamie Lee Curtis

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

– Joyce Meyer

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

– John F. Kennedy

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

– Jessica Valenti

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

– Jamie Lee Curtis

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don’t want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it’s also a parent’s worst nightmare: That they won’t need you. It’s like the real tragedy of parenting.

– Jonathan Safran Foer

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don’t have the answers. We are at a loss.

– Julia Cameron

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, ‘I want to improve my parenting – let’s see how the chimps do it!’

– Ian Dunbar

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

– Jillian Michaels

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

– Jane Fonda

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I’m sick of that; it’s irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you’re coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.

– Bill Goldberg

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

– Ben Carson

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

– Andrew Shue

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

– Allan Bloom

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