Top 1200 Being A Good Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

In our country, being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen parent... you would assume that my life would amount to nothing. And here I stand today. So, if I can do it... you can, too!

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly, my body instinctually yielded to the needs of this growing being, and I had no choice but to embrace what was happening and all that lay ahead, even if I was afraid and uncertain. So, while being a parent has made writing more challenging, it has also made being a writer more certain. There's no room to procrastinate; there is to time for fear.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

Everything seems to take on a new meaning when you become a parent and you put yourself in the shoes of the parent, not the shoes of the child.

I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

I've been told by people, 'It's strange that you're a celebrity but you've never missed a single occasion to be there for your kids, you're a very hands-on parent.' I'm a very involved parent, actually.

I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined

Any parent that relies on any law to help him parent is an idiot.

I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth to an Other and simultaneously being reborn as a child in the playground of creation.

As a parent who is also a journalist, when I talk to the brother and the sister of a victim or the parent of a victim, I put myself in their position and imagine what would it be like if that happened to me.

As far as being a parent, my view is no one is perfect, and what is important is that your children know you are there for them when they need you.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

I think the main benefit is that much of the traditional parenting that's being carried out today is so fear based and while the parent thinks they're in control they're really being ruled by fear. Everything is connected to fear.

I was never a warring parent who prejudiced the child against the other parent. We are a family wherein everyone cares for each other.

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Being a parent, is without any doubt, one of the most difficult things that you can do in life.

It's very hard being a mother or father and not being able to provide for your family. Your job as a parent is to keep them safe and protect them, and when aspects of that are taken away it puts these people in an awful situation.

Being a teenage mum and a single parent hasn't been easy but I wouldn't change it for the world.

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

If youre a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent.

Despite being such a brilliant director, Hansal Mehta is a simple and down to earth man. He is very sorted and driven by passion. So that's a rare combination - being a good craftsman and a good human being.

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent.

There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears like not being approved of pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between child and parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.

I knew that the moment I found out that I was pregnant by Leon, he was the kind of man that I could parent and co-parent with regardless of whether or not we stayed together in a relationship. We share similar morals and values on how to raise a child.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

It is every parent's nightmare when a child is in trouble with the law. As a parent, you can do your best to guide young people, but as adults, they make their own choices and live with the consequences of those decisions.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.

I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

At the very beginning, being a parent did impact how I go about this business.

You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.

I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn.

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment. Shame (and praise) help the child to internalize the parent's judgment. It impresses upon the child that the parent is not only more powerful but also right. Like the Puritans, Locke (in 1690), wanted the child to adopt the parent's moral position, rather than simply bow to superior strength or social pressure.

Calvin is a constant reminder that I'm not always as present as I want to be. His go-to state of being is present. So I'm really grateful of that part of being his parent.

The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)

Given the news we all read or hear about, it's actually made me a stronger parent - I'm not a 'helicopter parent,' but I am very aware of local and world events and want to teach them what's right and wrong.

You kind of know your place in the world as a parent. And the minute you become a parent, is the minute you understand that.

People talked about being a parent, or being a mother or a father. We don't talk about "wiving" our husbands or "friending" our friends, or "childing" our parents. We just talk about being in a relationship with those people. You don't measure whether your marriage was good based on whether or not your husband is better now than he was 10 years ago, or whether your friend is richer than when they first became your friend. The relationships between parents and children is a kind of love, rather than a kind of work.