How To Parent Quotes

I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.

Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

Seeking the counsel of trusted and respected health professionals can also be helpful in providing parents with some balance for their concerns as well as other avenues of support.

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.

There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.

Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.

My parents are very well-behaved. If anything, if my Mom were here right now, she would hug and kiss every one of you hello, and then she would feed you.

My parents separated when I was younger

Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.

Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now.

My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.

You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.

I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.

My parents think I'm better under pressure.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.

As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.

My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.

Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal

Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it.