I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.
— Zach Cregger
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
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
— Virginia Satir
People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith.
— Ty Burrell
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
Mum and Dad had high expectations of us as human beings - it wasn't just about education. It's a fantastic way to go about parenting, and I aspire to that.
— Tim Minchin
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.
— Temple Grandin
I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.
— Tamsin Greig
If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.
— Suze Orman
Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.
— Sundar Pichai
Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.
— Stephen Mangan
In many ways, I don't think journalism is any different from banking. And I don't think that banking is any different from parenting.
— Stephanie Ruhle
Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other.
— Stephanie Coontz
In her second career as a minister, my mother defied a legacy of chauvinism to become a leader of our community, overseeing a church that served as a hub, offering parenting classes, a food pantry, after-school programming, and - in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - a lifeline to those ravaged by loss.
— Stacey Abrams
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
— Sloane Crosley
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
— Shawn Amos
Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he advocated limiting the reach of the landmark 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying certain parenting rights to same-sex couples.
— Sarah McBride
It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.
— Yolanda Hadid
Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
— W. Bruce Cameron
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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.
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
'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
— Taylor Sheridan
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
— Tamora Pierce
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
— Susie Bright
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
You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.
— Stephen Curry
Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.
I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.
— Steffi Graf
As I started parenting, I realised there is no formula to it.
— Sonali Bendre
Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.
— Simon Van Booy
Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I'm definitely the disciplinarian.
— Shakira
I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.
— Wylie Dufresne
I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.
— Virginia Postrel
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.
— Tori Amos
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
— Tina Turner
Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.
— Tim Huelskamp
Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.
— Taylor Hanson
Parenting definitely has some challenging moments.
— Tamera Mowry
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.
— Susan Cain
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
— Steven Spielberg
That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting style was, 'There's the TV. Go watch it. Mommy's got 10 other people to take care of.'
— Stephen Colbert
Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.
I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
— Sigmund Freud
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.
— Sebastian Coe
