Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents"

Linda Hamilton, Actress

"I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done"

Wayne White, Artist

"Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount"

Lara St. John, Musician

"I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life"

Amy Grant, Musician

"I love being with my children. They're fascinating people"

Amy Grant, Musician

"I like to spend my time with my children"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"I said I would get better with each baby, and I have"

Demi Moore, Actress

"They are amazing kids, so we let them make decisions, but also have discipline"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please"

Jill Clayburgh, Actress

"There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species"

Hugh Lofting, Author

"Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves"

Elizabeth Edwards, Lawyer

"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up"

Morton Hunt, Writer

"I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids"

Melissa Joan Hart, Actress

"You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy"

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman, Writer

"Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives"

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman, Writer

"My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education"

John Engler, Politician

"Like a lot of Irish households, we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand"

Anne Ford, Writer

"Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself"

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman, Writer

"The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind"

Anne Cassidy, Writer

"We have a beautiful little boy who is 18 months old and another little boy to be born in October. We are very excited about that!"

Drew Brees, Athlete

"Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior"

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman, Writer

"If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good!"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old"

Jackie Collins, Author

"Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy, fulfilled adults"

Bobby McFerrin, Musician

"I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... Accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with"

Anne Ford, Writer

"The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved"

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman, Writer

"Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now, but also in the grand maybes of life, guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child"

Anne Cassidy, Writer

"One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly"

Otto Rank, Psychologist

"I've led this empty life for over forty years, and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation"

Larry David, Actor

"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

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