Parenthood Quotes - Page 12

• One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Kids, Parenting

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• She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

  Kristin Hannah

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

  Kristin Hannah (2011). “Night Road”, p.13, Macmillan

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• I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

  Anne Tyler

  Husband, Mean, Thinking

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• Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.

  Jon Stewart

  Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities, Scratches

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• We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

  Thomas McGuane

  Children, Couple, Hands

  Thomas McGuane (2015). “Crow Fair: Stories”, p.82, Vintage

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• Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Selfish, Thoughtful

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• Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most utopias end and by some measure fail. And just because they're a failure doesn't mean there isn't value there.

  Lauren Groff

  Mean, Failing, Utopia

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• If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

  Brian Tracy

  Children, Live Life, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 15, 2014

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• One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this training will not only teach specific skills such as how to change diapers or how to play responsively with toddlers, but will raise parents' self-confidence at the same time. The proposed cure, in short, is to reform and educate the people with the problem.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Self Confidence, Play, Skills

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• Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

  Horace

  Writing, Parent, Literature

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• In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Past, Parent

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

  Jack Valenti

  Home, Power, America

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• Pominville is going to have to open a planned parenthood center!

  Rick Jeanneret

  Planned Parenthood

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• The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Deterioration, Gone, Before Marriage

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• Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

  Mark Twain

  Friends, Community, Opinion

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• Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

  Dale Archer

  Children, Parenting, Class

  "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• On so many levels [S.E. Cupp]’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.

  Keith Olbermann

  Perfect, Doe, Levels

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• Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on the basis of qualities we find attractive. But we do not choose our children. Their qualities are unpredictable, and even the most conscientious parents cannot be held wholly responsible for the kind of child they have. That is why parenthood, more than other human relationships, teaches what the theologian William F. May calls an “openness to the unbidden.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Love Is, Parent

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• I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

  Adele Faber

  Children, Parent, Experts

  Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish (2012). “How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk”, p.11, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Democrats will say the money they give to Planned Parenthood does not go to abortions. That the money they give to Planned Parenthood only goes to other women's health issues, including mammograms and things like that.

  Chuck Todd

  Issues, Giving, Abortion

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• If you want an abortion you go to Planned Parenthood and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

  Jon Kyl

  Abortion, Doe, Want

  "Jon Kyl Expunges Remark That Was ‘Not Intended To Be A Factual Statement’ From Congressional Record" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2011.

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• My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted and I have always believed it to be true. Add a clear idea of what inspires you, dedicate your energies to its pursuit and there is no knowing what you can achieve, particularly if others are inspired by your dream and offer their help.

  Pete Goss

  Dream, Ideas, Knowing

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• Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

  Christina Aguilera

  Jobs, America, Parent

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• My kids are so much better parent than I was.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Parent

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Thinking, Miracle, Terrible

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