Parenting Quotes
 "_____" Parenting quotes.
I enjoy reading them. I guess because they make me realize I'm not the only one that feels this way..."Gee, I've thought the same thing!" These are not just for the 'moms' but ALL adults raising kids, especially wonderful red heads (gingers)! (Visit also my "Funny Sayings by Moms" page)   
Parenting Quotes - Various People
"If you don’t talk to your kid about the little stuff, they won’t talk to you about the big stuff."
(Jay McGraw (son of Phil McGraw a.k.a "Dr. Phil")"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they are going."
(P.J. O’Rourke)"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids."
(Bill Cosby)"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out."
(Erma Bombeck, humorist/writer)"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant – and let the air out of the tires."
(Dorothy Parker) "Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."
(Robert Fulghum)"The American Dream is not owning your own house. The American Dream is getting your children out of your house."
(Congressman Dick Armey)"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
(Theodore M. Hesburgh )"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."
(Harold S. Hubert)"Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world today is done by children."
(Oliver Wendel Holmes)(These parenting quotes were sent to me from unknown source, so cannot verify 100% accuracy but good stuff nevertheless!) If YOU have some good parenting quotes that you'd like to share, just let me know on my "Contact Me" page and I'll post them!
.....SOMEBODY SAID.....
Somebody said it takes about 6 weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby...
Somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, 'normal' is history. | Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct ...
Somebody never took a 3-year-old shopping. | Somebody said being a mother is boring...
Somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver’s permit. | Somebody said if you’re a ‘good’ mother your child will ‘turn out good’...
Somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee. | Somebody said you don’t need an education to be a mother...
Somebody never helped a 4th grader with his math. | Somebody said you can’t love the second child as much as you love the first...
Somebody doesn’t have 2 children. | Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and deliver...
Somebody never watched her ‘baby’ get on the school bus for the 1st day of kindergarten or on a plane headed for military boot camp. | Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married...
Somebody doesn’t know that marriage can add a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother’s heart strings. | Somebody said a mother’s job is done when her last child leave home...
Somebody never had grandchildren. | Somebody said your mother knows you love her so you don’t need to tell her...
Somebody isn’t a mother. |
(These parenting quotes are Author Unknown)
More Parenting Quotes
 ... BEFORE I WAS A MOM... (Dad, Parent, ....) Before I was a Mom I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations. Before I was a Mom
I had never been puked on.
Pooped on.
Chewed on.
Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts.
I slept all night.  Before I was a Mom
I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests.
Or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep. Before I was a Mom
I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put her down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a parent.  Before I was a Mom
I didn't know the feeling ofhaving my heart outside my body.
I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.
I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy. Before I was a Mom
I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every
10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth,
the joy,
the love,
the heartache,
the wonderment,
or the satisfaction of being a Mom. I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a Mom ...
(These parenting quotes are Author unknown) 
WORDS
-- 6 important words in the English language:
"I admit I made a mistake"
-- 5 important words: "You did a good job"
-- 4 important words: "What is your opinion?"
-- 3 important words: "If you please"
-- 2 important words: "Thank you"
-- 1 important word: "We"
-- 1 least important word: "I"
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