Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
— Christy Turlington
My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.
— Christie Brinkley
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.
— Carrie-Anne Moss
Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
— Carl Honore
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
— Caitlyn Jenner
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
— Bruce Feiler
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
— Brene Brown
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
— Billy Graham
Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.
— Bill Goldberg
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'
— Bernie Mac
Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.
— Ben Shapiro
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
— Barry Humphries
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
— Audre Lorde
It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
— Anthony Edwards
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
— Anna Quindlen
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
— Christopher Morley
Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.
— Chris Gardner
Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do.
— Charles J. Shields
Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.
— Carol S. Dweck
Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.
There's no one right way to be a person, we're all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through.
— Busy Philipps
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
— Brooke Shields
The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
— Bob Filner
Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.
— Bill O'Reilly
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
— Beverly Cleary
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
— Benjamin Spock
My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.
— Ben Falcone
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
— Barbara Bush
No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach.
— Arlie Russell Hochschild
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Parenting is not just about you and your kid; it's also about whomever you're parenting your child with. So there is a kind of 'awareness' involved for everybody. It's all about the way you interact with your child and participate in your child's life.
— Anna Getty
Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.
— Christine Tsai
My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.
— Chelsea Clinton
There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
— Carl Jung
All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.
— Carl Hart
I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.
If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
— Bob Barr
The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
— Bernie Siegel
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
— Ben Carson
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.
— Ayelet Waldman
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
— Ariel Gore
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.
— Anne Sullivan
