Quotes about Parenting

Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Where are all the sour patch parents?

Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

His daughter, as part of himself, came within the normal range of his solicitude; but she was an outlying region, a subject province; and Mr. Orme's was a highly centralized polity.

Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There's a lot of supposed tween comedy on TV that isn't particularly funny, but it's got a lot of laugh track. And I go, 'Please don't watch that. Please just watch something that's actually funny.'

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible.

When you have kids, all your plans, everything that you do is for them to have fun.