Parenting Quotes

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

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

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.