There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.
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.
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
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.
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.
Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
~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.~
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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