“You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.”
Quotes about parenting
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“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”
“If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.”
“Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”
“Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.”
“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 were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”
“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.”
“No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.”
“I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.”
“It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.”
“I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.”
“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.”
“I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.”
“Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.”
“That's my ideal day, time with my boys.”
“We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?”
“Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.”
“We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.”
“I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.”
“There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.”
“My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.”
“What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.”
“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.”