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"At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents."
Jane D. Hull"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."
Robert Fulghum"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."
Ron Taffel"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
Erma Bombeck"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
Billy Graham"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
Jackie Kennedy"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
Peter Ustinov"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."
Henry Ward Beecher"Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules."
Anna Quindlen"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
Charles R. Swindoll"Childhood is a short season."
Helen Hayes"I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real."
Reese Witherspoon"Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy."
Liam Neeson"Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day."
Taylor Hanson"My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity."
Roberto Benigni"Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny."
Ben Stein"To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself."
James E. Faust"There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature."
Ayelet Waldman"My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do."
Mitt Romney"The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus."
Todd Tiahrt"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
Martin Mull"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built."
James Dobson"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."
Garrison Keillor"Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship."
Laura Schlessinger"The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy."
Kamisese Mara"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
Susie Bright"We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids."
Dale Archer"My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning."
Gena Lee Nolin"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."
Miriam Makeba"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
Sigmund Freud"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
Denis Waitley"Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom."
Tim Allen"Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways."
Dennis Miller"Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style."
Mayim Bialik"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."
Mayim Bialik"I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up."
Tina Turner"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
Beverly Cleary"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
Franklin P. Jones"Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than 'Jeopardy!'"
James Holzhauer"A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child."
John Dickerson"Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard."
Karamo Brown"I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects."
Kourtney Kardashian"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there."
Robert Cormier"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching."
Roy L. Smith"I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence."
Brooke Shields"What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp."
Marjorie Holmes"No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right."
Alan Arkin"Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive."
Bruce Feiler"Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles."
Carol S. Dweck"Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating."
Bob Filner"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
Carl Jung"When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity."
Rose Kennedy"I'm no parenting guru. I suppose you just take everyday as it comes and do what you think is best."
Spencer Matthews"You hear so much awful stuff before you have a kid, like you'll never sleep again, we always knew it would be utter garbage. We're pretty relaxed people, the less stressed you are the more easy you'll find parenting."
Spencer Matthews"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."
David Lammy"My parenting heroes are the Obamas! They've been married for so long, and it looks like they're having fun, and their kids are down to earth, well-adjusted, and smart. They seem to have a strong family unit that I would like to emulate in my life."
GloZell"In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens."
Laura Moser"The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'"
Daniel Bryan"Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?"
Amy Chua"Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child."
Dave Morris"Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me."
Kristin Armstrong"We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss."
Julia Cameron"My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving."
Kym Whitley"Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction."
Bernie Siegel"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
Marcelene Cox"A mother who is really a mother is never free."
Honore de Balzac"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."
Benjamin Spock"I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children."
Steffi Graf"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden."
Patricia Heaton"I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents."
Gloria Swanson"Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station."
Robbie Coltrane"As I started parenting, I realised there is no formula to it."
Sonali Bendre"I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight."
Glennon Doyle Melton"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting."
Virginia Satir"When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety."
Robert Evans"Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr."As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job."
Roseanne Barr"I am no expert on parenting."
Ranvir Shorey"Parenting put music in the right place for me. Touring was always the first priority before, but it isn't any more. And, paradoxically, that has made my ability to make music much easier."
Anoushka Shankar"My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that."
Andrew Lincoln"I think there's different parenting styles."
Farrah Abraham"Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships."
Robert J. Waldinger"There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day."
Cathy McMorris Rodgers"The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up."
Andrew J. Bernstein"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."
Rosa Salazar"For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets."
Michael Showalter"I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'"
Drew Lachey"I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years."
Nancy Jo Sales"From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say."
Monica Johnson"We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding."
James E. Faust"Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life."
Muriel Spark"Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult."
David Frost"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church."
Lynn Johnston"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies."
June Allyson"There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe."
Ben Carson"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."
Brene Brown"I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting."
Pamela Druckerman"Parenting is not just about you and your kid; it's also about whomever you're parenting your child with. So there is a kind of 'awareness' involved for everybody. It's all about the way you interact with your child and participate in your child's life."
Anna Getty"I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam."
Debra Winger"If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach."
Caitlyn Jenner"My approach to parenting is the same as my approach to life: it's all about putting in the hours and working hard."
Perez Hilton"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.'"
Pooja Bedi"I listen to parenting books on tape."
Hilaria Baldwin"Growing up, I've always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture."
Kelly Marie Tran"Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting."
Pamela Adlon"It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us."
Yolanda Hadid"Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother."
Jennifer Nettles"I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple - that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn't to me at the time."
Angela Rayner"In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends."
Padma Lakshmi"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."
Emma McLaughlin"Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do."
Charles J. Shields"A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting."
Clyde Edgerton"Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker."
Christy Turlington"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."
Ogden Nash"With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect."
Jo Swinson"Kids are fat because of lack of parenting."
Ben Shapiro"Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential."
Gordon Neufeld"Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society."
GloZell"I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet."
Nelly"Parenting is a learning process. -Kim Zolciak"
Biermann"To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt. -Olivia Newton"
John"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."
Quentin Crisp"Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first."
Dale Archer"The top tip for parenting, especially for newly married couples or people trying to have a baby: you should want to have a child."
Reham Khan"People ask me how I've raised three children as a single parent but honestly, parenting has been a breeze."
Reham Khan"Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is."
Irene Rosenfeld"If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me more about how to be a decent person living in a world that's filled with chaos.'"
Min Jin Lee"In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology."
Rosemarie DeWitt"There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?"
Rosemarie DeWitt"Parenting definitely has some challenging moments."
Tamera Mowry"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal."
Bill Cosby"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."
Bill Cosby"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."
Martin Jacques"In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging."
Martin Jacques"Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do."
Simon Van Booy"Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime."
Red Skelton"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult."
Nadia Boulanger"Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again."
Eliot Spitzer"Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives."
Susan Cain"Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty."
Robert Casey"Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?"
Erica Jong"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."
Matthew Perry"Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected."
Robert Orben"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
Russell Baker"Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out."
Matthew Broderick"Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren."
Emily V. Gordon"All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting."
Carl Hart"My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place."
Ben Falcone"Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting."
Rachel Simmons"Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have."
Mel Carnahan"I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people."
Ryan Phillippe"If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press."
Henry Reed"I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into."
Hector Elizondo"Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work."
Carl Honore"Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached."
Carl Honore"Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets."
Carl Honore"My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too."
Chelsea Clinton"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes."
Todd Tiahrt"What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it."
Marlee Matlin"The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving."
Polly Berrien Berends"Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other."
Juhi Chawla"I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure."
Brene Brown"Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it."
Amy Chua"Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone."
Christine Tsai"Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I'm definitely the disciplinarian."
Shakira"I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work."
Zach Cregger"My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house."
Alanis Morissette"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."
Ellen Key"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
Plato"That's my ideal day, time with my boys."
Kenny G"Somebody once told me I treated my smart phone like Wilson, the volleyball Tom Hanks turns into a friend when he's stranded on a desert island in that movie 'Castaway.' It's an apt comparison: parenting a toddler occasionally feels like being marooned, and your phone is your only connection to the rest of the world."
Rachel Simmons"Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he advocated limiting the reach of the landmark 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying certain parenting rights to same-sex couples."
Sarah McBride"I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it."
Jesmyn Ward"Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other."
Stephanie Coontz"Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals."
Emma Thompson"Parenting is an impossible job at any age."
Harrison Ford"It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest."
Anthony Edwards"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.'"
Bernie Mac"I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours."
Rita Rudner"Having children with someone is the real bond."
Francesca Annis"As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights."
Jim Gaffigan"I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything."
Mayim Bialik"In her second career as a minister, my mother defied a legacy of chauvinism to become a leader of our community, overseeing a church that served as a hub, offering parenting classes, a food pantry, after-school programming, and - in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - a lifeline to those ravaged by loss."
Stacey Abrams"Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place."
GloZell"To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms."
Carl Honore"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
John F. Kennedy"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children."
Princess Diana"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."
Gloria Steinem"Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting."
Stephanie Coontz"Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women."
Stephanie Coontz"The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other."
Johnny Flynn"My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?"
Robbie Coltrane"I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part."
Mary J. Blige"Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard."
Sarah Clarke"Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting."
Tim Huelskamp"The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching."
Gilbert Highet"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
George Bernard Shaw"There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children."
Andrew Shue"The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult."
Ewan McGregor"Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth."
Jennifer Aniston"My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud."
Angela Duckworth"My father was the biggest influence on my own parenting because I became the complete opposite to him. He found it very difficult to show physical love, like cuddling and that kind of stuff, so I went the other way."
Keith Allen"I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys."
Joan Cusack"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it."
Frank A. Clark"The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering."
Benjamin Spock"The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing."
Jourdan Dunn"Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity."
Rumaan Alam"Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity."
Rumaan Alam"America's parenting customs can shock foreigners."
Pamela Druckerman"We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not sure what's in them or whether they're good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces."
Pamela Druckerman"I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze."
Tori Spelling"I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older."
Eric McCormack"While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting."
Jane Fonda"Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids."
Clive Owen"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."
Jodi Benson"Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy."
Jenna Morasca"We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves."
Liane Moriarty"Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult."
Craig T. Nelson"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
Alvin Toffler"My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education."
John H. Johnson"Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children."
George Will"I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting."
Alexandra Fuller"With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women."
Rumaan Alam"The parenting books didn't work for me; I got my parenting lessons from everything but the books! And it was about figuring things out. So every time I had a thought, I would put down my conclusions and thoughts."
Sonali Bendre"In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing."
Shawn Amos"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."
Connie Sellecca"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
Meryl Streep"Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being."
Evan Bayh"One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another."
Pamela Druckerman"I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well."
Elizabeth Berg"People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's quite similar in writing. People forget that you're a human; they just want to give you their advice."
Emma Healey"We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments."
Edie Falco"I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so."
Mayim Bialik"Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose."
Mayim Bialik"Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine."
Sebastian Coe"You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single."
Jane Kaczmarek"No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach."
Arlie Russell Hochschild"Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend."
Stephen Mangan"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become."
Coretta Scott King"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."
Christopher Morley"Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them."
John Boehner"My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ."
Lee Strobel"There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'"
Gary Oldman"My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point."
Dan Levy"I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild."
Steven Spielberg"The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict."
Alan Thicke"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."
Paul G. Tremblay"Parenting makes us better in so many regards."
Alissa Quart"When I first learned I was pregnant with my son, I had only two firm convictions about parenting: I knew it was important, and I knew that I wanted to get it right. I was 29 at the time."
Kim Brooks"I don't want to believe it - that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other, that there is something inherently selfish and greedy and darkly obsessive in the desire to care as much about the thing you are writing or making as you do about the other humans in your life. What parent would want to believe this?"
Kim Brooks"Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up."
Jillian Michaels"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."
Jonathan Safran Foer"I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage."
Mika Brzezinski"I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!"
Andy Serkis"Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options."
Robert Webb"I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect."
Barry Humphries"Education, like neurosis, begins at home."
Milton Sapirstein"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos."
Jill Clayburgh"I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends."
Tim McGraw"Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a little afraid we're doing it wrong."
Glennon Doyle Melton"I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings."
LZ Granderson"The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive."
Angela Duckworth"The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting."
Virginia Postrel"I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them."
Alison Gopnik"There's no one right way to be a person, we're all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through."
Busy Philipps"Whatever needed to be done, I need to know how to do it just as well as my wife. You know, for us to be able to really balance the parenting. It was very humbling, and it was also, um - terrifying. Because, you know, giving a baby a bath for the first time is one of the scariest things you can do on this whole earth."
Jason Isbell"The desire to keep television out of our son's life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed on from the beginning. We debated the pros and cons of co-sleeping, of pacifiers, of chemical-free crib mattresses and baby sign language. The television question, on the other hand, was a no-brainer."
Kim Brooks"I do not wish to share any parenting responsibilities with Michael because he is doing so well without me."
Debbie Rowe"People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith."
Ty Burrell"The '70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows cracked while they went to the grocery store."
Ann Patchett"My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles."
Sloane Crosley"I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys."
Josie Bissett"I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach."
Tamsin Greig"There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them."
Anthony Edwards"Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives."
Polly Berrien Berends"Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life."
Nathaniel Branden"I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That's what parenting is: You're not there for yourself; you're there for your offspring and everyone else around you."
Conrad Anker"My parenting philosophy pretty much boils down to this: I love my kids; I tolerate yours. Mine just make common, age-appropriate mistakes - phases, let's call them - while your kids are completely undisciplined and probably need counseling."
Colin Cowherd"The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!"
Louise Hart"If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means."
Fred Rogers"Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age."
Jennifer Aniston"I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'"
Pat Conroy"As parenting goes, knowing the whereabouts of one's children is pretty fundamental."
Katie Hopkins"It's not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me."
Kevin Jonas"A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities."
Kalki Koechlin"It's funny: everybody is going to have a little bit of different point of views when it comes to parenting."
Haylie Duff"Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?"
Sloane Crosley"For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer."
Bob Barr"In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage."
Arlie Russell Hochschild"I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable."
Robert Winston"People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that."
Meghan Daum"My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents."
Michael Spence"We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting."
Adam Mansbach"When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent."
Adam Mansbach"Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings."
Kelly LeBrock"Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes."
Richard Louv"Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending."
Virginia Satir"I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived."
Eddie Vedder"Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents."
Chris Gardner"Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough but also very freeing."
Paul Walker"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."
Joan Lunden"Mum and Dad had high expectations of us as human beings - it wasn't just about education. It's a fantastic way to go about parenting, and I aspire to that."
Tim Minchin"There was kind of a no-nonsense parenting style that my parents had that was true of the time. Everything now... there are books, and there are websites, and there are blogs, and you're reading, and there's research. We're such an interconnected world now, and half the stuff they did was pretty terrible, but we somehow turned out fine."
Adam F. Goldberg"In many ways, I don't think journalism is any different from banking. And I don't think that banking is any different from parenting."
Stephanie Ruhle"I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting."
Derren Brown"I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage."
Rob Delaney"I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed."
Tamora Pierce"I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there's a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem."
Amy Chua"Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat."
Adam Mansbach"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."
Allan Bloom"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
Doug Larson"It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad."
Pauline Phillips"Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little."
Tori Amos"Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out."
Ewan McGregor"Parenting isn't just parenting your own child."
Lewis Black"Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information."
Robert J. Waldinger"You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do."
Stephen Curry"The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror."
Brene Brown"We will never achieve equality in the workplace until we have more equality in the home. Our plans for an extra four weeks of parental leave specifically for fathers will help tackle the assumption that parenting is one of the 'girl jobs'."
Jo Swinson"I think the main parenting or education you do for your children is by way of being, and not by way of having guidelines or some agenda. I think that life itself is constantly bringing learning opportunities."
Yossi Ghinsberg"Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way."
David Sheff"I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict."
Amy Chua"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?"
Amy Chua"It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert."
Adam Mansbach"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."
Nicholas Kristof"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."
Wylie Dufresne"I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that."
Kourtney Kardashian"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. -Marie von Ebner"
Eschenbach"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home."
Robert Orben"We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children."
John Sculley"The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows."
Emily Oster"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."
Andrew Solomon"So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life."
Uma Thurman"In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short."
Don Willett"Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that."
Rza"I gave importance to parenting over everything else and went back to Delhi. Now, when I had to make a comeback, 'Bigg Boss' was the best platform to give me that visibility."
Rahul Dev"In the past, I have been guilty of returning from work with some parenting words of wisdom, ignoring the fact that my wife has been dealing with the situation for a while. The correct strategy at these times is to wind my mansplaining neck in."
Romesh Ranganathan"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."
Nadiya Hussain"Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me."
Farah Khan"I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age."
Mathew Knowles"To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting."
Amy Chua"Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments."
Amy Chua"My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home."
Christie Brinkley"A lot of kids have parents who say, 'Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.' Whenever I hear that kind of 'advice,' I think it's bad parenting. I was lucky to have a parent who assured me it was a possibility to pursue music."
Gerald Clayton"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
Walter Scott"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings."
Stevie Nicks"Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness."
Alan Thicke"I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit."
Lisa Whelchel"Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents."
Joyce Meyer"Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments."
Temple Grandin"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."
Fred G. Gosman"Parenting a pre-teen is quite something."
Melissa Rivers"Launching a kid into college is about more than having the money to pay for it. Parents invest so much of their time and identities in the process that it can feel like a part time job. For many parents, the college your child ends up attending becomes a parenting grade."
Rachel Simmons"I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting."
Barbara Bush"I don't think my music is that big of a deal - my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make records and go off and play shows is a small percentage of my day-to-day existence."
Phil Elverum"Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting."
Eric Greitens"Parenting is different for everybody."
LaVar Ball"I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting."
Amy Chua"I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book."
Bruce Feiler"I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties."
Cindy Crawford"For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family."
Anna Getty"Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood."
Anna Getty"Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own."
Bill Goldberg"Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for."
Laura Dern"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."
Luther Burbank"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly."
Miguel de Cervantes"The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears."
Phil McGraw"Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children."
Brene Brown"Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children."
Kate Middleton"I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it's because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting."
Gong Yoo"Parenting is no sport for perfectionists."
Andrew Solomon"My whole thing with parenting, even though this is my first time, I want to just put five or six objects on the floor - a trumpet, a piano, some dancing or a computer or whatever it is, and just see what he picks up."
Omarion"Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully. -Carrie"
Anne Moss"There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it."
Nia Vardalos"Much is written about parenting - its joys and tribulations - and then about the transition into hot flushes, night sweats and (if we're lucky) a new life as a grandmother."
Kate Garraway"I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself."
Emily Oster"My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit."
Dawn French"Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions."
Hanna Rosin"Parenting is tough."
Kate Middleton"I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering."
W. Bruce Cameron"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."
W. Bruce Cameron"We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?"
Ellen Goodman"If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible."
Suze Orman"I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin."
Norma Shearer"There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'"
Ezekiel Emanuel"Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice."
Sundar Pichai"No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot."
Fiona Apple"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."
Brene Brown"I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community."
Audre Lorde"If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills."
Helen Fisher"My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting."
Michele Bachmann"I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's really important that's a problem, like alcoholism and bad parenting. It's done in a funny, smart way."
Justin Chatwin"The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult."
Jamie Lee Curtis"The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting."
Riccardo Sabatini"It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened."
John Ross Bowie"My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life."
Marion Jones"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going."
Phyllis Diller"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."
Anne Sullivan"That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting style was, 'There's the TV. Go watch it. Mommy's got 10 other people to take care of.'"
Stephen Colbert"The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do."
Helena Bonham Carter"The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough."
Jessica Valenti"I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy."
Jessica Valenti"The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step."
Regina Brett"I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed."
Holly Marie Combs"Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that."
Essie Davis"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."
Essie Davis"'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting."
Taylor Sheridan"I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through."
Harry Connick, Jr."Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies."
Clive Owen"Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings."
Hugh Jackman"It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei."
Cindy Crawford"I've met many rich kids over the years. Many are very down to earth and work hard; they come from decent parenting. Others, however, are not."
Jesse Spencer"Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives."
Merlin Olsen"Too many people treat parenting like it's the 20th item on their to-do list."
John Kennedy"I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants."
Adam Davidson"I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day."
Sarah Jessica Parker"I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it."
Alan Alda"The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways."
Alison Gopnik"Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why."
Jenny Zhang"I might be at the odd press conference with a little bit of spill on me because I'm not going to hide the imperfections of parenting. I don't think anyone needs that."
Jacinda Ardern"The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of."
Jamie Lee Curtis"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!'"
Ian Dunbar