Parenting Quotes

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
Norma Shearer

Mother, Father, Whatever

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

Great, Children, Put

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
Tina Turner

Time, Regret, Kids

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

Nice, Feeling, Small

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

Family, Children, Expect

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

Live, Through, Daughter

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

Wife, Focus, Kids

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
Robbie Coltrane

Power, Children, Stamina

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.
Kenny G

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
Lynn Johnston

Morning, Mom, Dad

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

Off, Mothers, Less

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
Ryan Phillippe

Life, Great, Home

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

Life, Faith, Education

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
John Walters

Making, Sure, Grow

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.
June Allyson

Home, Stay, Soon

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

Marriage, Best, Trying

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
Isabelle Huppert

Mom, Dad, Catholic

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.
Marie Osmond

Change, Time, Women

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

Birthday, Family, Good

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

Good, Mother, Father

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

Try, Matter, Kids

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

Children, Learned, Childhood

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

Funny, Good, Experience

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

Past, Her, Often

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

Emotional, Bad, Brain

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