Parenting Quotes And Sayings

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“Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality”
– Iris Marion Young

“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are”
– Cheryl Lacey Donovan

“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough”
– Lisa Gardner

“While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, ‘I love you‘ to me for the first time. It sounded like ‘All lub boo,’ but I didn’t care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries”
– Jim Beaver

“Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough”
– Richard Paul Evans

“Independence isn’t doing your own thing; it’s doing the right thing on your own”
– Kim John Payne

“We’re [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we’re just praying we won’t screw up too badly”
– Jodi Picoult

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance”
– Franklin P. Adams

“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them”
– P.J. O’Rourke

“I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn’t do what I wanted, I’d kill him”
– Katharine Hepburn

“You can’t make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn’t made them wish they had.”
– Marshall B. Rosenberg

“In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us…. More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children”
– Martin Luther

“It’s so awful, attacking your child. It’s the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It’s like bitch-slapping E.T”
– Anne Lamott

“One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun”
– Jane Goodall

“He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me”
– Maggie Stiefvater

“I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names”
– Jodi Picoult

“The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as “Do you want to go to bed now?” You won’t want to hear the answer, believe me. “Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?” That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered”
– Jodi Picoult

“He could not construct for the child’s pleasure the world he’d lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he”
– Cormac McCarthy

“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while”
– Josh Billings

“If you’re like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income”
– Dave Barry

“A daughter,’ Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. ‘Any fool can have a son,’ he said. ‘It takes a man to conceive a daughter”
– Ariana Franklin

“Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don’t misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence”
– Wm. Paul Young

“We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents – the question is, how much”
– Jodi Picoult

“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters’ side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of par- ents to children than by those of children to parents. Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family meals where the father or mother treated their grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered to any other young people, would simply have termi- nated the acquaintance? Dogmatic assertions on mat- ters which the children understand and their elders don’t, ruthless interruptions, flat contradictions, ridicule of things the young take seriously some- times of their religion insulting references to their friends, all provide an easy answer to the question “Why are they always out? Why do they like every house better than their home?” Who does not prefer civility to barbarism”
– C.S. Lewis

“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education”
– Plato

“How is it possible that our parents lied to us?” “Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…” “Everythings going to be alright”
– Brian K. Vaughan

“Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears”
– Henry Cloud

“… People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls”
– Lev S. Vygotsky

“Parenthood…It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last”
– Peter Krause

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