30 Quotes About Parenting

Being a parent is one of the most important jobs that a person will have in life. How great is it to have the opportunity to mold and shape something of your own.

Although we may hope for it to be, parenting is not always easy. There will be moments when you may feel like you can’t get it right. However, while we work at it, we gain experience, we laugh, we learn more about ourselves and we get to experience the joy that children can bring. We get to love.

Here are 30 quotes about parenting.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

Taylor Hanson

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

Rose Kennedy

Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it’s also the place we’re most vulnerable. We’re all a little afraid we’re doing it wrong.

Glennon Doyle Melton

Parenting is now a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.

Juhi Chawla

I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Mayim Bialik

Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.

Merlin Olsen

With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.

Jo Swinson

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Gilbert Highet

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Benjamin Spock

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Ben Carson

Hugs can do great amounts of good- especially for children.

Princess Diana

Parenting in not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child’s friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.

GloZell

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage the and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Denis Waitley

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

Louise Hart

Parenting isn’t just parenting you’re your own child.

Lewis Black

My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.

Ben Falcone

Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Nadia Boulanger

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

Gena Lee Nolin

I suppose it’s amazing how quick life goes by when you have children. 

Steffi Graf

Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than ‘Jeopardy’!

James Holzhauer

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Carl Jung

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

Red Skelton

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Martin Mull

I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they’re the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.

Glennon Doyle Melton

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules.

Anna Quindlen

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Garrison Keillor

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.

Jane D. Hull

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