Parenting Quotes
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Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.
Adamo Macri
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~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~
Julia Roberts
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.
Virginia Satir
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
Erma Bombeck
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Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.
Neil L. Andersen
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Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
Erica Jong
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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
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By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you end up inadvertently extending the introverted existence of a teenager deep into middle age.
Danielle Crittenden
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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
Herbert Spencer