Parenting Quotes

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

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

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

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.

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.

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

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

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.

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's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

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

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

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

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

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!