Growing up, I’ve always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture.
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
Once you’ve taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn’t add much information.
The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
Parenting isn’t just parenting your own child.
Today’s new age parenting guarantees you’ll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.
I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.
You know, parenting is so personal. And we’re all afraid that we didn’t quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we – what if we made a mistake?
Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.
Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
Whether I’m running, working, relating, parenting, learning – whatever I’m doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.
In many ways, I don’t think journalism is any different from banking. And I don’t think that banking is any different from parenting.
I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.
Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It’s become my life’s work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood.
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.
When I was a kid, my mother’s parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
I’m a parent, especially when you’ve had the intense parenting the way I had. It’s all in the bank. It’s all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That’s the stuff that makes your work rich, that’s what you dip into.
The children who are ‘our future’ will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.
Cohabitation itself doesn’t cause ineffective parenting.
Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.
The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, ‘When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.’
I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That’s what parenting is: You’re not there for yourself; you’re there for your offspring and everyone else around you.
