Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: parenting

Parenting is a sensitive, controversial subject, so I say to all the mommas and the daddies of the world God bless and good luck!

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

I do not wish to share any parenting responsibilities with Michael because he is doing so well without me.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

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

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

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?

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.

Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.

People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's quite similar in writing. People forget that you're a human; they just want to give you their advice.

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.

I think there's different parenting styles.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means.

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.

There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

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

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.