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

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel de Cervantes on parenting

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.
Connie Sellecca on parenting

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin Spock on parenting

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Bruce Jenner on parenting

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
Cindy Crawford on parenting

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
Abigail Van Buren on parenting

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler on parenting

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
Benjamin Spock on parenting

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
Clive Owen on parenting

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
Kelly LeBrock on parenting

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara on parenting

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
Marion Jones on parenting

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
Liza Minnelli on parenting

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom on parenting

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
Robert Cormier on parenting

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash on parenting

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
Alan Thicke on parenting

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
Milton Sapirstein on parenting

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 on parenting