Parenting Quotes

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

Children, May, Try

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Dad, Through, She

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

Children, Brain, Bowling

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

Children, Focus, Welfare

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Anthony Edwards

Home, Father, Children

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Garrison Keillor

Children, Nothing, Eyes

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

Sadness, Healing, Child

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

Mother, Father, Threatened

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger

Love, Best, Mean

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
Olivia Newton-John

Home, Hurt, Daughter

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.
Todd Tiahrt

Home, Mother, Father

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben

Home, Children, Find

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
Laura Schlessinger

Great, Children, Chance

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.
Gena Lee Nolin

Morning, Smile, Children

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank A. Clark

Loved, Baby, Born

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
David Frost

Love, Night, Sick

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

Mother, Everyone, Wants

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones

Patience, Children, Learn

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.
Roseanne Barr

Home, Children, Job

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
Matthew Broderick

Love, Baby, Changes

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner

Best, Home, Diet

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Hodding Carter

Hope, Children, Give

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
Phil McGraw

Home, Children, Parent

I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.
Tim McGraw

Work, Tough, Kids

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
Patricia Heaton

Work, Family, Hard

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