Top 1200 Good Parenting Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.

I truly love the challenges of being a mother, co-parenting and finding the space to allow myself to work rigorously.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

People ask me how I've raised three children as a single parent but honestly, parenting has been a breeze.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I've been on my own, parenting myself.

I'm tired but grateful: choosing to blend parenting and public service has made me a more confident mother and a better legislator.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.

I do not wish to share any parenting responsibilities with Michael because he is doing so well without me.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.

What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most.

A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Too often, our societal norms still set up a false choice between parenting and professionalism.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

My daughter's position in our household is definitely higher than mine. I listen to her a lot. I guess you can say that's my parenting style.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage -- everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world. The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity, and their peace all find common roots in the teaching of children in the home.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.

You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

Single parenting isn't easy, but it's a choice I made and as with everything else in my life it's been a 'give it your 100 per cent or don't do it.'

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.

What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.

The top tip for parenting, especially for newly married couples or people trying to have a baby: you should want to have a child.

Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.