Parenting Quotes - Page 26

• Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Age, Territory

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle."

  Gretchen Rubin

  Sleep, Feet, Orange

  "Ten Ways To Be A More Light-Hearted Parent". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2019.

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• Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Children, Father, Support

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• If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

  Eric McCormack

  Fun, Regret, Father

  "What I know about women". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• We want our children to become who they are- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that are good for you. It is the power to choose to become what you are capable of becoming, to develop your unique potential by making choices that turn possibility into reality. It is the ability to make choices that actualize you. As often as not, maybe more often than not, this kind of freedom means doing what you do not want, doing what is uncomfortable or tiring or boring or annoying

  Gregory Millman

  Children, Mean, Unique

  Martine Millman, Gregory Millman (2008). “Homeschooling: A Family's Journey”, p.69, Penguin

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• We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

  Josh McDowell

  Family, Genuine Love, Role Models

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• While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.

  Jim Beaver

  Funny Inspirational, Love You, Marine

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• Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

  Louise Bates Ames

  Years, Games, Names

  Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg (2012). “Your Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant”, p.1, Dell

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• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  Ogden Nash

  Family, Children, Giving

  "Happy Days". Book by Ogden Nash, 1933.

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• I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Children, Home, Love Is

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• OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

  Bil Keane

  Mother, Children, Busy

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• A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.

  Wes Fesler

  Portraits

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• The world's greatest changes are made at home.

  Wes Fesler

  Home, World, Made

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• Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

  Wes Fesler

  Art, Expression, Perspective

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• The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

  Wes Fesler

  Fun, Busy, Failing

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• Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Home, Kids, Men

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• Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support

  Wes Fesler

  Home, Support, Foundation

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• The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

  Billy Graham

  Home, School, Simple

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• I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.

  Brian Andreas

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Father

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• Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Home, Inspire, Neurosis

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Inspiring, Mom, Dad

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• Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 08, 2010

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• Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

  William Shakespeare

  Criticism, Littles, Deals

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.2611, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence

  William P. Young

  Father, Broken, Would Be

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