Quotes about parenting

Any parent who tells their kids that they can’t attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It’s ok to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it’s not all right to miss the majority of them.

Simon Sinek

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

Zig Ziglar

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

Bill Cosby

If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent.

Stephen Covey

I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

J. K. Rowling

As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don’t have to be perfect. That’s the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.

Terry Crews

One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.

Jordan Peterson

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Thomas Carlyle

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.

Phil McGraw

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Thomas Jefferson