Acceptance Quote by Mikki Brammer

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay…

— George Will

“Parenting is a bit like baking a cake. You put all the right stuff in and do exactly what your mother wrote in the…

— Anonymous

“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the way that…

— Luke Timothy Johnson

I don't want to believe it - that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other, that there…

— Kim Brooks

“Bottom line, parenting is long, hard, heart work. It is an intense, loving labor of soul. It is a rigorous experience in sacrificial, selfless…

— Cary Schmidt

“Learning who our children are and shaping who they will become is one of the most rewarding and ultimate pleasures of parenting.”

— Joan Ambu

Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are…

— Augustus Napier

“The trouble with denying children the freedom to be themselves—with forcing them into an idea of what they should be, not allowing them to…

— Seanan McGuire

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

— Elizabeth Berg

“Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don’t make children—children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held…

— John Krasinski

A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.

— John Dickerson