I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.
— Lisa Whelchel
Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.
— Lewis Black
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
— Laura Schlessinger
My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.
— Kym Whitley
The desire to keep television out of our son's life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed on from the beginning. We debated the pros and cons of co-sleeping, of pacifiers, of chemical-free crib mattresses and baby sign language. The television question, on the other hand, was a no-brainer.
— Kim Brooks
That's my ideal day, time with my boys.
— Kenny G
As parenting goes, knowing the whereabouts of one's children is pretty fundamental.
— Katie Hopkins
Much is written about parenting - its joys and tribulations - and then about the transition into hot flushes, night sweats and (if we're lucky) a new life as a grandmother.
— Kate Garraway
I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's really important that's a problem, like alcoholism and bad parenting. It's done in a funny, smart way.
— Justin Chatwin
Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.
— Juhi Chawla
I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.
— Josie Bissett
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
— John Sculley
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
— John F. Kennedy
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We will never achieve equality in the workplace until we have more equality in the home. Our plans for an extra four weeks of parental leave specifically for fathers will help tackle the assumption that parenting is one of the 'girl jobs'.
— Jo Swinson
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.
— Jillian Michaels
I've met many rich kids over the years. Many are very down to earth and work hard; they come from decent parenting. Others, however, are not.
— Jesse Spencer
We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.
— Liane Moriarty
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.
— Lee Strobel
In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
— Laura Moser
I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.
— Kourtney Kardashian
When I first learned I was pregnant with my son, I had only two firm convictions about parenting: I knew it was important, and I knew that I wanted to get it right. I was 29 at the time.
Growing up, I've always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture.
— Kelly Marie Tran
Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
— Kate Middleton
Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.
— Karamo Brown
I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.
— June Allyson
Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.
— Joyce Meyer
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.
— John Ross Bowie
A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.
— John Dickerson
I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.
— Jodi Benson
With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.
I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.
— Jessica Valenti
I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.
— Jesmyn Ward
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
— Liam Neeson
Parenting is different for everybody.
— LaVar Ball
Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
— Laura Dern
I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.
It's not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me.
— Kevin Jonas
Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
— Kelly LeBrock
Parenting is tough.
A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.
— Kalki Koechlin
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
— Julia Cameron
The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.
— Jourdan Dunn
The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other.
— Johnny Flynn
Too many people treat parenting like it's the 20th item on their to-do list.
— John Kennedy
Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
— John Boehner
I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
— Joan Cusack
As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
— Jim Gaffigan
The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.
