Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.
— Sarah Clarke
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
— Russell Baker
Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity.
— Rumaan Alam
In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.
— Rosemarie DeWitt
I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I've been on my own, parenting myself.
— Rosa Salazar
Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.
— Robert Webb
Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.
— Robert J. Waldinger
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
— Robert Evans
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
— Robbie Coltrane
Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.
— Richard Louv
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.
— Reese Witherspoon
Launching a kid into college is about more than having the money to pay for it. Parents invest so much of their time and identities in the process that it can feel like a part time job. For many parents, the college your child ends up attending becomes a parenting grade.
— Rachel Simmons
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
— Quentin Crisp
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
— Polly Berrien Berends
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
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
— Pauline Phillips
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
Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that.
— Rza
Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
— Roy L. Smith
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
— Roseanne Barr
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.
— Ron Taffel
Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
— Robert Orben
Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
— Robert Casey
I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.
— Rob Delaney
The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.
— Riccardo Sabatini
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
— Red Skelton
Somebody once told me I treated my smart phone like Wilson, the volleyball Tom Hanks turns into a friend when he's stranded on a desert island in that movie 'Castaway.' It's an apt comparison: parenting a toddler occasionally feels like being marooned, and your phone is your only connection to the rest of the world.
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
— Princess Diana
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
— Plato
I don't think my music is that big of a deal - my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make records and go off and play shows is a small percentage of my day-to-day existence.
— Phil Elverum
Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough but also very freeing.
— Paul Walker
I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
— Pat Conroy
I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.
— Ryan Phillippe
With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.
There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?
When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.
— Rose Kennedy
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
— Robert Winston
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
— Robert Fulghum
My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
— Rita Rudner
The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
— Regina Brett
I gave importance to parenting over everything else and went back to Delhi. Now, when I had to make a comeback, 'Bigg Boss' was the best platform to give me that visibility.
— Rahul Dev
Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.
Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
— Phyllis Diller
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
— Peter Ustinov
So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.
— Paul G. Tremblay
