Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. Eliot Spitzer on parenting
Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? Erica Jong on parenting
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 on parenting
No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot. Fiona Apple on parenting
I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. Eddie Vedder on parenting
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles. Sloane Crosley on parenting
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons? Sloane Crosley on parenting
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam. Debra Winger on parenting
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 on parenting
Parenting is an impossible job at any age. Harrison Ford on parenting
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 on parenting
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. Padma Lakshmi on parenting
Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose. Mayim Bialik on parenting
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style. Mayim Bialik on parenting
I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so. Mayim Bialik on parenting
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that. Mayim Bialik on parenting
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. Mayim Bialik on parenting
I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage. Mika Brzezinski on parenting
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. Robert Casey on parenting
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life. Uma Thurman on parenting