Top 495 Parenting Quotes

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Brene Brown

No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

Drew Lachey

The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.

Alison Gopnik

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Jennifer Aniston

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

Alan Alda

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

Lewis Black

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Jennifer Aniston

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

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