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. – Reese Witherspoon
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. – Marcelene Cox
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. – Norma Shearer
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. – Tina Turner
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. – Robbie Coltrane
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? – Ellen Goodman
We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free. – John Walters
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. – Roberto Benigni
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. – Jennifer Aniston
The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! – Louise Hart
I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze. – Tori Spelling
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part. – Mary J. Blige
Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? – Erica Jong
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting. – Jane Fonda
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. – Nancy Chodorow
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. – Fred G. Gosman
Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose. – Mayim Bialik
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style. – Mayim Bialik
I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. – Mayim Bialik
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up. – Jillian Michaels
