312 quotes found
“Mostly good is enough. Mostly good produces healthy kids who know they are valued and either forget the other parts or turn them into funny stories.”
“And if you don't let a boy become a man, it's no one's fault but your own when you're still wiping his ass when he should be making you grandchildren.”
“My personal philosophy is that, as a parent, it is my job to find that balance of when my child is ready to try something on her own and when she needs help.”
“Children should not be taught to get a job or pursue a profession. Children should be taught to discover their passion and with it define their mission.”
“Being a good parent is not an obligation, it is a choice. Plenty of people fall short in the parent category and quite a few refuse to accept it. You will do a much better job if you understand tha...”
“Lets be Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticuss children, Scout and Jem, carefully watch their fathers behavior as the house next door to theirs burns to the ground. As the fire creeps clo...”
“We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.”
“Unfortunately, we spend more time teaching our daughters how to avoid becoming rape victims than teaching our sons not to become rapists.”
“If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.”
“. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy”
“Therefore, the idle parent who wants to stop the whining needs to stop whining himself, and one way is to resist the call to work ever longer and harder hours. Throw your BlackBerry into the river....”
“If your parents are getting older, you must treat them as your own child”
“Too many parents fail to understand that there is a difference between fitting in and being liked, that there is a difference between being "normal" and being happy. High school is temporary. Famil...”
“Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.”
“It felt great to be loved. Children... Children are a hazard to your life... As they'd got older they had become more expensive. But it was worth it. If she didn't have her children her life would ...”
“Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitm...”
“I realize parenting is hard and boring at times and a four-hour break would be super, but this is the job we signed up for. Some days it sucks, but most days it's great.”
“Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly.”
“If you're not parenting on purpose, don't be surprised when you get chaos from the children.”
“It was an earthquake, tearing at the sons of America, trying to swallow them up. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful sons, that women had reared, had kissed and screamed at, and that fathers had stared...”
