Being a mother of two myself – and two small girls – I think that single parenting is hard.
Some men don’t want to be responsible fathers. It’s easier to say ‘Let’s just turn the kids over to the state.’ Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.
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.
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called ‘parenting’ is becoming increasingly difficult.
You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you’re the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.
Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious – it’s almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It’s not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you’re five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
I’m doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.
I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I’m really a paddler on a beach.
We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn’t fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn’t look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn’t really about disapproval; it’s about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
It’s hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children’s book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
Should kids check phones at dinner? I don’t know. To me, that’s a parenting choice.
Being a chef isn’t the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids’ lives as much as possible.
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.
I’m not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges – which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.
The way I was parented did affect my parenting – probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.
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.
In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.
The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we’ve never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.
Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it’s much more complicated than that.
Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren’t equal, and that doesn’t help anyone.
