Rosalind Wiseman Quotes

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.

No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing I've ever done but I'm loving it.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them.

I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

Parenting definitely has some challenging moments.

Having children is messy and easy to judge.

No one can ever prepare a parent for two things: the immeasurable love that comes with having a child; and the sorrow and confusion that comes when your child appears to learn in a different way from other children.

I have nieces and nephews who I've nurtured, but when it's your own it's hard to put into words how difficult it is.

Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.

Parents are teachers as much as caregivers, and our children learn to navigate life's challenges by watching us. Kids can get a road map for how to handle painful emotions.

It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.