Top 1200 Good Parenting Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Parenting is different for everybody.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

How my parents are in the kitchen is a good indicator of their parenting style. Mum cooks for sustenance, wants to get in and out, the job done quickly. My Dad wants to prance around in the kitchen, create a curry - and a mess - and entertain everyone.

Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.

I am no expert on parenting.

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.

Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.

Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

As I started parenting, I realised there is no formula to it.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

As parenting goes, knowing the whereabouts of one's children is pretty fundamental.

Parenting is a learning process.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

Parenting is tough.

I think being a good parent means that every day is a different challenge. It's about mindfulness and trying to be present. I think life goes really quickly and it's very easy to be tuned out, and not be present. That is what I've learned in my parenting experience, and I continue to be mindful of it.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

Parenting needs to come to the forefront.

I don't know what the f--k I'm talking about with parenting.

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

I listen to parenting books on tape.

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.

Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.

A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.

Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than 'Jeopardy!'

The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm] on its head and creates this mutuality, this circularity where both parent and child serve each other and where in fact, perhaps, the child could be even more of a guru for the parent .... teaching the parent how the parent needs to grow, teaching the parent how to enter the present moment like only children know how to do.

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.

Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Givi ng your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise children who look and act a lot like Jesus.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

Parenting definitely has some challenging moments.

A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins of "omission" as well as "commission." You can feed, clothe, and house your kids and not really parent them. When we raise kids for selfish reasons (to feel proud, to have people love us and appreciate us), if they disappoint us we'll pull back. But when we realize that God has called us to raise godly children and God is always worthy to be obeyed, we have a motivation that goes beyond our own pride and our own comfort.

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

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.

Leadership is like parenting.

Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.

I think there's different parenting styles.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.