My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“The Worldwide Parental Anxiety System is failing if this many of us have made sex tapes.” — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As a child singer, I never sang a single track for my father or uncle. — Armaan Malik Copy Share Image
Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do. — John Walters Copy Share Image
“work any better to be overmanaging with a sick child than with a well child. Advances” — Ellyn Satter Copy Share Image
I don't think any crime in the world is greater than telling a child: You're no good at it..!! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who’s anyone in children’s literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable… — Lynn messina Copy Share Image
We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
I never understood overly protective parents...The more you don't allow them to do the more the worse they are gonna do behind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key. — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Seriously, far beyond whether you have a natural birth or not, use cloth diapers or don't, opt to breastfeed or use formula,… — Katherine Ladny Mitchell Copy Share Image
One very common thing is that often very brilliant children stop working because they're praised so often that it's what they want… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus… — Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Copy Share Image
The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood,… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an… — Lori Borgman Copy Share Image
A parents job isn't to prevent their children from falling, but to pick them up when they do. — Aaron DeCamp Copy Share Image
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults. — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child. — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
