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Parenting goes beyond providing foods, shelter, clothing, and other basic necessities. Nurturing a child to travel in the direction of positive enlightenment, is arguably the greatest thing that you could do for a child. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Parenting fucked you up. -- Abigail Barnette
Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills. -- Stephen King
Parenting needs to come to the forefront. -- Bill Cosby
Parenting isn't just parenting your own child. -- Lewis Black
Parenting is an impossible job at any age. -- Harrison Ford
Parenting cannot just be one size fits all. -- Amy Chua
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. -- Jennifer Aniston
Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit. -- Ellen Hopkins
Parenting is the most important profession in the world. -- John Wooden
Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving. -- Fiona Dimas-Herd
Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting; Focus on the uniqueness of every Child. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily. -- Dan Savage
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up -- Jillian Michaels
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -- Frederick Douglass
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up. -- Jillian Michaels
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little. -- Tori Amos
Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars. -- Tom Althouse
Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children. -- Elizabeth George
Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple. -- Benjamin Lotter
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. -- Robert Breault
Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own. -- Willie Robertson
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. -- Charles R. Swindoll
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. -- Jim Valvano
Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking! -- Kevin Heath
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them. -- Nora Ephron
Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours. -- Dennis Miller
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. -- Billy Graham
Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways. -- Dennis Miller
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! -- Louise Hart
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best. -- Erma Bombeck
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. -- Phyllis Diller
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up. -- Ray Romano
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. -- Nancy Chodorow
Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up. -- Rachael Bermingham
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves. -- Jodi Picoult
Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God. -- Ann Voskamp
Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying. -- Nora Ephron
Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitment. -- Cindy Vine
Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children. -- Dan Pearce
Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed. -- Robert Breault
Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options. -- Robert Webb
Parenting @ a higher level of consciousness:1st love self so deeply that when ur child misbehaves U do not have 2 react @LoveNever_Fails When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future! -- Kevin Heath
While there are other parenting books with insight into childhood, Parenting from Your Heart goes a step further, showing parents how to put theory into practice with their own child in a realistic, compassionate and effective way. This book is worth its weight in gold!? -- Jan Hunt
A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not. -- Nancy Chodorow
Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential. -- Gordon Neufeld
Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart. -- Tamara L. Chilver
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. -- Benjamin Spock
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? -- Milton Berle
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. -- Mother Teresa
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. -- Robert Fulghum
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be -- David Bly
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -- Benjamin Franklin
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. -- Elbert Hubbard
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -- Clarence Budington Kelland
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. -- Haim Ginott
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. -- James A. Baldwin
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. -- Whitney Houston
The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too. -- Wes Fesler
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. -- Gary Smalley
You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible. -- Tina Fey
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~ -- Kelli Williams
Be fair. Play hard. -- Dan Venezia
Expect progress, not perfection. -- John F. MacArthur Jr.
Jokes about butts WORKED. -- Drew Magary
Everything depends on upbringing. -- Leo Tolstoy
Correction badly undertaken creates distance. -- Kevin Thoman
Guilt is unavoidable for mothers. -- Linda Gray
Adoption is grief in reverse. -- Jody Cantrell Dyer
It's time to undo Rahim. -- Nadia Hashimi
The Tone is the Message. -- Kevin T. McCarney
Children are no antidote to loneliness. -- Erica Jong
Families that feel together, heal together. -- Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D.
Never discipline whom you've not discipled. -- Neil Kennedy
Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting. -- Zadie Smith
Every child should be read to. -- Kim Hansen
Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing. -- Jody Cantrell Dyer
Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman -- Chris Crutcher
Mantras are the past & the future. -- David R. Wommack
What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude. -- Brene Brown
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Don't leave your elders as Fallen Leaves. -- Pawan Prakash Tirkey
Perhaps it takes courage to raise children -- John Steinbeck
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly. -- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
For me, adoption was grief in reverse. -- Jody Cantrell Dyer
You can say the same thing nicely. -- PeggySue Wells
Honor your relationships by developing listening skills. -- Allan Lokos
Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship. -- Kim John Payne
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. -- Bernard Branson
With toddlers around, times are always interesting. -- Beth Ann Fennelly
Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness. -- Rand Olson
Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth. -- Jody Cantrell Dyer
The controlled freak-out is a beautiful thing. (Ephesians 4:26) -- Jay Payleitner
We raise predators by treating children as prey. -- Stefan Molyneux
Pray regularly for the members of your family. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything is an art, which must be mastered. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
What doesn't kill you will make you stronger -- Jeannette Walls
OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us. -- Maralee McKee
You are almost never cool to your children. -- Neil Gaiman
We sucked in atheism with our canned milk. -- Joy Davidman
The world's major religions: Same boss, different departments. -- David R. Wommack
As a father, we need to actively listen. -- Asa Don Brown
When our feet talk to us, we listen. -- Alexander Nestoiter
This is why we can't have nice things -- Madge Madigan
Your children need your presence more than your presents. -- Jesse Jackson
What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy. -- Mike Crump
you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy -- Kristin Hannah
Gracious words revived our spirit and restored our soul. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood. -- Lisa Unger
The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing. -- Jourdan Dunn
Words are prophesy. Prophesy positive words into your life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom. -- Amish Tripathi
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. -- Ed Asner
Education is the best gift my parent gave me. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A father is a man who fails every day. -- Michael Chabon

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