Parenting Quote by Rachel Jonas

“I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they…

— Bill Konigsberg

“Our children make us so vulnerable. Our parents too, I suppose.”

— Sara Sheridan

“But one of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never…

— Una LaMarche

“Modern parents can take comfort from the fact that most of our teenagers come through adolescence, too—perhaps a little bruised, maybe a little humiliated,…

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

“When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear.”

— M.L. Stedman

“It was nice when you could look up to your parent, even as an adult, and think, This is who I fucking want to…

— John Scalzi

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up…

— Cooper Davis

“You weren’t always born to the right parents. And parents didn’t necessarily get the kids they were meant to raise.”

— Judy Blume

“Doesn’t just about everybody disappoint their parents? They say all they want is for us to be happy, but what they really want is…

— Eileen Cook

“It killed me that one of the hardest parts of being a mom was sometimes dealing with other moms. The judgments, the looks, the…

— Bunmi Laditan

“. . . parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond.”

— Danielle Monsch

“underscores the fact that parents’ fears are well founded. The numbers don’t lie, and there are too many of them to ignore or dismiss…

— Richard Bromfield