Noma Dumezweni Quotes

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

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

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

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

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

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.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

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.

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.