Top 1200 Good Parenting Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

I'm no parenting guru. I suppose you just take everyday as it comes and do what you think is best.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.

Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

The challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.

It's not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me.

Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented no evidence of any such effect. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit.

As a mother living in poverty, I don't expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.

Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

Gay parenting is a rejection of God's law engraved in our hearts

People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith.

Being able to make a sincere apology - one that says, "Yes, I get it; I screwed up. Your feelings make sense, and I'm taking this seriously" - is at the heart of being successful in leadership, parenting, and friendship, as well as our own integrity and self-worth. And the failure to apologize? Even a good relationship will suffer quietly - because we really feel it when someone won't take responsibility for what they said, or didn't say.

Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.

I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just an automatic shut-off of that idea. In fact, I just instantly went into the necessities of parenting, and I think it's been very good for grief. Because it's a reality check, I guess. I have very real tasks that need immediate attention all the time.

successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I'm definitely the disciplinarian.

Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours.

Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.

Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

It's funny: everybody is going to have a little bit of different point of views when it comes to parenting.

Too many people treat parenting like it's the 20th item on their to-do list.

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short.

I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.