3 December 2020 John Walters We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
3 December 2020 Roberto Benigni My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder I’m trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
3 December 2020 Stevie Nicks Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don’t want to go to PTA meetings.
3 December 2020 Liam Neeson Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy.
3 December 2020 Mayim Bialik Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.
3 December 2020 Mika Brzezinski I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.
3 December 2020 Rita Rudner 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.
3 December 2020 Patricia Heaton 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.
3 December 2020 Susie Bright I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
3 December 2020 Robert Orben I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
3 December 2020 Mayim Bialik I have a neuroscience background – that’s what my doctorate is in – and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
3 December 2020 John H. Johnson My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
3 December 2020 Jill Clayburgh I wasn’t very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children’s birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
3 December 2020 Virginia Satir What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Diller Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
3 December 2020 Charles R. Swindoll Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
3 December 2020 Garrison Keillor Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
3 December 2020 Lisa Whelchel I’m hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.
