We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not sure what's in them or whether they're good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces.
One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.
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.
I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.
Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough but also very freeing.
My approach to parenting is the same as my approach to life: it's all about putting in the hours and working hard.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
I don't think my music is that big of a deal - my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make records and go off and play shows is a small percentage of my day-to-day existence.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.
Single parenting isn't easy, but it's a choice I made and as with everything else in my life it's been a 'give it your 100 per cent or don't do it.'
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.
Somebody once told me I treated my smart phone like Wilson, the volleyball Tom Hanks turns into a friend when he's stranded on a desert island in that movie 'Castaway.' It's an apt comparison: parenting a toddler occasionally feels like being marooned, and your phone is your only connection to the rest of the world.
Launching a kid into college is about more than having the money to pay for it. Parents invest so much of their time and identities in the process that it can feel like a part time job. For many parents, the college your child ends up attending becomes a parenting grade.
I gave importance to parenting over everything else and went back to Delhi. Now, when I had to make a comeback, 'Bigg Boss' was the best platform to give me that visibility.
I am no expert on parenting.
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
The top tip for parenting, especially for newly married couples or people trying to have a baby: you should want to have a child.
People ask me how I've raised three children as a single parent but honestly, parenting has been a breeze.
The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.
Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.
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.
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
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.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.
Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.
In the past, I have been guilty of returning from work with some parenting words of wisdom, ignoring the fact that my wife has been dealing with the situation for a while. The correct strategy at these times is to wind my mansplaining neck in.
Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I've been on my own, parenting myself.
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.
There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?