Ron Taffel Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

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.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

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.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

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

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.