Parenting Quotes

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The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano… — Sydney J. Harris
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… — Virginia Satir
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he… — Benjamin Spock
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent… — Brian Tracy
If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience… — Jane Clayson Johnson
It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it — Robert Breault
The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need. — Lee Corso
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. — Robert Breault
The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product… — Frank Pittman
~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there… — Kelli Williams
In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has… — Sheila Kitzinger
For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence. — Carol Klein
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror. — Brene Brown
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our… — Brene Brown
The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version… — Jamie Lee Curtis
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of… — George Will
My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach… — Alanis Morissette
Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex,… — Nathaniel Branden
My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very… — Kym Whitley

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