Parenting Quotes
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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!'
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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.'
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So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused. You can't test what sort of teacher someone will be, because testing what someone knows isn't the same as what someone is able to share.
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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.'
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Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.
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I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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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.
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Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.
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I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
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It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
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Having children with someone is the real bond.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
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I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
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Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.
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No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
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They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.
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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
