Top 1200 Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

You can't be the perfect parent.

History is the third parent.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]'re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don't think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I wasn't a pushy parent - you have to let children be who they want to be.

I'm a parent. I'm a mother.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.

The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.

There's no vacation from being a parent.

A parent has to be silent much of the time.

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

Government cannot be your parent.

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.

The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.

Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent.... Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.

Being a figurehead for those with family members in prison is somewhat new for me. Something I've discovered since my father's incarceration is that the prison system is broken. My first-hand experiences have taught me that reform needs to happen sooner than later. I'm most interested in mentoring children with parents in prison. When a parent is sentenced to a jail term, the child is sentenced to the same time to be spent without a mother or father. No child should suffer a stigma or lack support and guidance because of the sins of a parent.

One of the great things about being a grandparent is you get to redo what you didn't or couldn't do as a parent. Oftentimes we forget that even while the parent is parenting, they're still a growing person. They're still trying to fix themselves. They're still out there not doing everything a hundred percent correctly. I had the best parents I could ever have, but the kinds of things that they were capable of doing, the things that they said and did, were very destructive to my sister, brother, and me. But they're so much more than those things.

My mom was a single parent.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Television is the third parent.

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

Being a parent is amazing.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

I don't know what I'm doing as a parent at all.

Sales is the parent of marketing.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

I'm a parent, I gotta be a super dad.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

I'm pretty proud of the parent that I've become.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

There's never been a parent in my life.

We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.

There's been nothing proven that violence in video games has an impact. As a parent though, and I'm a parent for a 20-year-old, for a 16-year-old and for a 10-year-old, and so, you know, I make choices everyday for my kids as to what games I think is appropriate for them to play. And, you know, in the end it's up to the parents, it's up to the gamers themselves working with their parents, if they're under 21, to make the smartest choice for the games they play.

If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.

Hope is the parent of Faith.

Being a parent is a tiring business.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you're a kid again, poking around in your parents' closet, only this time there's no chance of getting in trouble, so you don't have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

I would definitely love to be a parent.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

Everything is ideal to its parent.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

I'm a parent, and my kids think I'm an idiot.

Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and raving, trying to get back at the friend, one wound leads to another. But when the child can experience the consoling embrace of a parent, she or he can live through the pain, return to the friend, forgive, and build up a new relationship. Be gentle with yourself, and let your heart be your loving parent as you live your wounds through.

Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.

True love is the parent of humility.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.