Children Quote by Stephanie Coontz

While managing a career and family leaves, some parents feeling guilty and frazzled; others seem to be able to effortlessly balance parenthood with full-time…

— Amy Morin

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their…

— Harold S. Kushner

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent…

— Rose Macaulay

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

— Kirstie Alley

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

— Anne Lamott

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to…

— LZ Granderson

Parents who do not persevere in rearing their children according to their own convictions are not leaving them 'free' to develop on their own.…

— William V. Shannon

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright…

— Fred Rogers

“Why do we accept this one-size-fits-all situation as a given when we know perfectly well that adults don’t organize themselves this way? We often…

— Susan Cain

With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater…

— Wendy Lustbader

Parents who achieve a successful work-life balance don't live and breathe to make their kids happy. Instead, they strive to raise independent children that…

— Amy Morin

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow…

— Katy Perry