Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

parenting

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

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

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

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

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

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

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

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

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.