When you’re a parent, life can be hectic, fun, full of love, full of frustration and an adventure every day. Parenting is the hardest, and most enjoyable, job you will ever undertake. There are all kinds of emotions and feelings attached to parenting. The following are a few fun parenting quotes to help you through the journey, find some humor in it, and capture how you feel in words:
Quotes that defines parenting: Parenting is a journey, and it is going to be different for each person, as well as for each child. A mom with three children can attest to the fact that she raises her children three different ways, and a mom with ten will use ten different ways. It is never easy to really define what it means to be a parent, but the following quotes help.
Parenthood: The state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.
— Marcelene Cox
Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.
— Arnold Glasow
Parents: People who spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and the rest of the time when they will turn in.
Eleanor Graham Vance
Quotes that show the love of a parent: When you are a parent you are going to experience a gamut of emotions about your children. You will love them one second, and you will hate them the next. You will think they are the most annoying things in the world, and the most precious. Love is the main ingredient when it comes to parenting, and the following helps define that love just a little.
You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back. ~William D. Tammeus
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Quotes that show the irony and humor of parenting: While parenting is never very easy, it is almost always humorous, at least if you can step back and see the irony of loving someone so much and them “hating” you in return, or wanting so much for your child to learn and grow, but wishing they would just sit and watch a movie too. Parenting is a laugh, and a heartache, but there is always humor to be found, and here are some quotes that capture that.
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~Lane Olinghouse
Parenting viewpoints from parents in the trenches, because parenting doesn’t come with a manual. In addition to