Parenting Quotes - Funny and Thought-Provoking Quotes for Parents

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Parenting Quotes:

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
~John Wilmot

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
~Bette Davis

Simply having children does not make mothers.
~John A. Shedd

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
~Lane Olinghouse

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
~Robert A. Heinlein

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
~Gail Sheehy

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
~Charles R. Swindoll

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
~Lawrence Housman

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
~Erma Bombeck

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~Franklin P. Jones

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
~Author Unknown

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
~Frank A. Clark

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
~Terence

< People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
~Leo Burke

Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids.
~Sam Levenson

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
~Milton Berle

Being a mother isn't simply a matter of having children. To think that is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
~Sydney Harris