Quotes about Parenting

"We need to do everything we can to help in those families with parenting skills, with community support."
-Carolyn Bennett

"There's a managerial sense about it and the idea that parenting is a kind of job. There's a goal and an outcome at the end of the task."
-Judith Stadtman Tucker

"It's how we do parenting in this society. We do it in a very isolated way and the onus is on us as individuals to get it right. Our successes are our own, but so are our failures. It's emotionally draining."
-Robin Simon

"Thanks to good parenting, none of them have engaged him in conversation."
-Capt. Gregory Richter

"These children can go out and have children of their own, but they don't have a good basis for parenting. And they're running out of time."
-Dawn Deluca

"Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships."
-Jodie Foster

"It's a one-stop shop. We have nutrition counseling, childbirth education, parenting classes. WIC comes here."
-Connie Krisman

"Scream-free parenting creates moments where they own their own lives. It also creates moments where they make bad decisions, and even though they don't want to live with the consequences, we have to let them. We let the consequences do the screaming."
-Hal Runkel

"The key to parenting is to keep track of what the children are doing, but not to the point of hovering over them."
-William Harris

"Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason."
-Alfie Kohn

"It's a tale that I believe ultimately speaks of good parenting and what it means to honor one's parents."
-Brendan Fraser

"It's all been pretty loose so far, but that has to change. We've just been rushing around and getting the necessities. We've all been just sort of group parenting. But we've got to get to the point of some kind of normal life."
-Linda Libby

"It's really a film about screwed-up parenting - but done with good intentions."
-Wayne Kramer

"The film has less to do with smoking and more to do with parenting ."
-Jason Reitman

"I set up the site because, at the time, there weren't many parenting resources online."
-Chris Ford

"The courts will become involved with parents to see if the place is cleaned up. Get them parenting skills classes so they can learn to be better parents."
-Mark Langan

"What happens is that the mother spends so much time with the child that the father's role ends up being a parenting aid."
-John Rosemond

"But for parenting teens you need a whole new set of tools."
-Roberta Zelleke

"This debate is not about a right to adopt, political correctness, gay rights, or parenting. It's a debate about children's chance for a family."
-Jacqui Smith