3 December 2020 Bill Cosby The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
3 December 2020 Andrew Shue There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
3 December 2020 Dennis Miller Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation’s highways.
3 December 2020 Matthew Broderick Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
3 December 2020 Mel Carnahan Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
3 December 2020 Bob Barr For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting ‘experts’ that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
3 December 2020 Alan Thicke 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.
3 December 2020 Roseanne Barr I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I’ve done my job.
3 December 2020 Bob Filner Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
3 December 2020 Norma Shearer I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
3 December 2020 Ellen Goodman We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
3 December 2020 Mayim Bialik I’ve become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that… basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.
3 December 2020 Michael Showalter For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black’s tweets.
3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.
3 December 2020 Franklin P. Jones You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
3 December 2020 Tina Turner I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
3 December 2020 Voltaire How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
3 December 2020 Nancy Chodorow Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
3 December 2020 Tori Spelling I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.
3 December 2020 Roy L. Smith We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
3 December 2020 Plato Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
3 December 2020 Beverly Cleary I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.
3 December 2020 Ogden Nash Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
