Parenting Quotes - Page 8

• There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

  Andrew Shue

  Mom, Stay Strong, Children

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• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Witty, Happy Mothers Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake.

  David Benatar

  Life, Baby, Sex

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Funny, Husband, Kids

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• It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

  Patricia Heaton

  Kids, Healthy, Normal

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• I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

  Rita Rudner

  Witty, Children, Feel Good

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• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  Haim Ginott

  Happy Mothers Day, Children, Young Generation

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• I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Funny Parent, Offers

  "My Sister's Keeper". Book by Jodi Picoult, April 6, 2004.

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• To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Teenage

  Dave Barry (2013). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry”, p.73, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

  Peter Gallagher

  Children, Underestimate, Ability

  "Fictional character: Sandy". "The O.C./ The SnO.C.", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, Home, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Fun, Parenthood

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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Witty, Children

  Notebooks (1912)

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• Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

  Dennis Miller

  Jobs, Important, Next

  "Rants".

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• Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

  Alan Thicke

  Inspiring, Together, Enough Time

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• It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Mistake, Educational

  "Helen Keller: A Life". Book by Dorothy Herrmann, University of Chicago Press, p. 56, 1999.

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• Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

  Glennon Melton

  Children, Inspiration, Kids

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• Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Children, Memorable

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

  Judith Jamison

  Mother, Father, Eye

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• You see much more of your children once they leave home.

  Lucille Ball

  Funny, Witty, Children

  "The Last Word" by Carolyn Warner, (Ch. 16), 1992.

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• ~My favorite thing about my son is that he comes home from school and the clothes go flying! Like, clothes off, right down to the undies.~

  Kate Hudson

  Home, School, Son

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• It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

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• Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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