Top 1200 Being A Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Being a parent is very important to me.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

There's no vacation from being a parent.

I know I'm very lucky. A lot of it is quite normal, scooting around the supermarket with a shopping trolley and things like that. With one parent being a prince and the other being an amazing sort of... business woman.

I'm a conscious parent when I believe... a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth.

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

My son's dad is committed, and involved, and amazing. We're actually really good friends. But I think it's dangerous to speak negatively to the child about your ex or the absent parent, because, believe it or not, they learn very quickly who the other parent is. And it's important that they develop their own attitudes and opinions about that other parent based on their experiences, not based on what someone has said about them.

Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794)

Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes.

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

I think it teaches you humility and love being a parent.

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

I don't think anyone imagines themselves being a single parent. But I don't have a choice.

We all know that I failed as a parent. I'll be a way better grandparent than I was a parent, and that's how I would rather leave that.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. We've got to send messages to our kids about what is important.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

It would be weird enough just being in a band trying to date. It makes it harder being a parent. And it makes it really interesting when you're trans.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

Being a parent is a tiring business.

I really believe that I've been a better parent from being a working mother.

It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who lost a parent or whose parent was severely wounded in combat.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parent loses, so lose the children.

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.

There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

I thought running for Congress paled in comparison to being a parent and being a mom - especially a single mom of three kids.

Being a parent changes you in life. I am responsible now.

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

Being a parent is amazing.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.

There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.