Parenting Quotes

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Mayim Bialik

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

Michele Bachmann

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Marcelene Cox

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Miguel de Cervantes

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Marjorie Holmes

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Marlee Matlin

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Martin Mull

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

Melissa Rivers

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Meryl Streep

I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to dea...

Nelly

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

Nancy Jo Sales

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Norma Shearer

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

Polly Berrien Berends

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me wh...

Pat Conroy

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

P. J. O'Rourke

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Russell Baker
Parenting quotes by Robert Fulghum, UberQuotes

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Robert Fulghum