Parenting Quotes

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

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.