Parenting Quotes

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

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

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

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.

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

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.