Sonali Bendre Quotes

I'm no parenting guru. I suppose you just take everyday as it comes and do what you think is best.

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

You have to figure out what works for you as a parent, and it's hard to do everything all at once.

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.