One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.
— Pamela Druckerman
I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting.
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
— Ogden Nash
There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.
— Nia Vardalos
How my parents are in the kitchen is a good indicator of their parenting style. Mum cooks for sustenance, wants to get in and out, the job done quickly. My Dad wants to prance around in the kitchen, create a curry - and a mess - and entertain everyone.
— Nadiya Hussain
From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.
— Monica Johnson
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
— Milton Sapirstein
My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.
— Michele Bachmann
Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.
— Melissa Rivers
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
— Mayim Bialik
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.
— Mathew Knowles
In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.
— Martin Jacques
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.
— Marjorie Holmes
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
— Marcelene Cox
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
— Luther Burbank
We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not sure what's in them or whether they're good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces.
Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.
— Pamela Adlon
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
— Norma Shearer
I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet.
— Nelly
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
— Nadia Boulanger
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
— Mitt Romney
I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.
— Mika Brzezinski
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
— Meryl Streep
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
— Mel Carnahan
Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.
I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
— Mary J. Blige
My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.
My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
— Marion Jones
I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
— LZ Granderson
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
— Louise Hart
America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
— Olivia Newton-John
Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.
— Nicholas Kristof
I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
— Nancy Jo Sales
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
— Muriel Spark
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
— Miriam Makeba
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.
— Merlin Olsen
People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.
— Meghan Daum
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
— Matthew Broderick
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
— Martin Mull
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
— Marlee Matlin
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
— Lynn Johnston
