Parenting Quotes

"There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there" "A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be" "One thing they never tell you about child-raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is." "My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car." "Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children " "Education must begin at birth." "My most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world." "The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents – because they have a tame child-creature in their house" "A society without mothers is a society that has lost respect for life and has ceased to care about life." "I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." "My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant." "Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." "Children don’t get traumatized because they get hurt; children get traumatized because they’re alone with the hurt" "A child’s brain needs healthy experiences to develop properly" "If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves." "Children need the emotional presence of their caregivers to thrive" "Men are what their mothers made them" "The child must know that he is a miracle" "I'm glad my son (The Rock) doesn't have to be labeled black or Samoan or mixed. He has instead been labeled as the best"