The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I’m not working I’m cool with the Teletubbies.
Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
My father wasn’t really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
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.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
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.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult.
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
