Parenting Quotes - Page 14

• We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

  Julia Cameron

  Loss, Answers

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• Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Teacher, Children, Leader

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• Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspire, Parenthood, Remains

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Opiates, Parenthood, Mass

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Graduation, Kindness, Children

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• My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

  John H. Johnson

  Mother, Strong, Hard Work

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• Loving families value effort as much as success.

  Wes Fesler

  Effort, Loving Family, Family Values

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• That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

  Kenny G

  Boys, Parenthood, Ideals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

  Benjamin Spock

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

  Ben Stein

  Crush, Children, Simple

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• The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

  Meryl Streep

  Mom, Mother, Interesting

  "Elastigirl: SuperMom Survives Summer" by Lisa Pullen Kent, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2016.

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

  Tina Turner

  Growing Up, Regret, Kids

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• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

  Mark Twain

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

  Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

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• I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

  Eddie Vedder

  Trying, Negative, Might

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• There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

  Peter De Vries

  Family, Children, Humorous

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• In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Garden, Discovery

  "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1974)

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• And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

  Alice Walker

  Family, Mother, Flower

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Witty, Time

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 2

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• I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

  Debra Winger

  Age, Roles, Yearning

  "Book World: Debra Winger on 'Undiscovered'". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

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• My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

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• Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

  Hanna Rosin

  Baby, Emotional, Attachment

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• Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Responsibility, Parent, Ifs

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• If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.

  Dave Barry

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

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