Advertisements
Parent Quotes
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Friendship Quotes
Love Quotes
Life Quotes
Funny Quotes
Motivational Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
Advertisements
Text Quotes
Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you’re the kind of person who’s going to have that feeling about a dog you’re definitely going to have that about a child. (Parent Quotes)
Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You’ve married, but the addition of a child strengthens and deepens everything. (Parent Quotes)
Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don’t. (Parent Quotes)
I don’t have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable. (Parent Quotes)
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality. (Parent Quotes)
Monsters,’ everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We’re always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They’re always at the heart of the story. (Parent Quotes)
My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don’t need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents. (Parent Quotes)
I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful. (Parent Quotes)
There are so many things I’d like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life. (Parent Quotes)
Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation. (Parent Quotes)
Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh. (Parent Quotes)
When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don’t worry about what’s going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you’re going to enroll him in and focus on how he’s doing right now. It’s not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent. (Parent Quotes)
As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children’s music. I couldn’t find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic. (Parent Quotes)
The spark for ‘In Praise of Slowness’ came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages. (Parent Quotes)
I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent. (Parent Quotes)
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It’s an awakening, a revelation that you have. (Parent Quotes)
Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child. (Parent Quotes)
I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they’re immediately wanting to be a parent or not. (Parent Quotes)
It’s lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. (Parent Quotes)
I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You’re not their friend. You’re their parent. (Parent Quotes)
I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, ‘This is the guy.’ When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn’t enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs. (Parent Quotes)
I don’t think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It’s a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me. (Parent Quotes)
Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don’t take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me. (Parent Quotes)
99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present. (Parent Quotes)
We found ... that being a good parent to one’s own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive. (Parent Quotes)
When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn’t enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs. (Parent Quotes)
I’m so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I’m never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I’m completely aware of their schedule, and they’re with someone I trust. (Parent Quotes)
My daughter is the biggest gift; I’ve said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you’ve cracked it, and you’re on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline. (Parent Quotes)
Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two’s is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They’re heavy to lift up when they’re throwing tantrums. (Parent Quotes)
There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children. (Parent Quotes)