Parenting Quotes

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Roy L. Smith

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Ron Taffel

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

Reese Witherspoon

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Simon Van Booy

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Susie Bright

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

Sarah Clarke
Parenting quotes by Sigmund Freud, UberQuotes

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

Stevie Nicks

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

Steven Spielberg

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain...

Temple Grandin

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

Taylor Hanson

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

Tori Spelling

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Todd Tiahrt

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Virginia Satir

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Walter Scott