Pamela Adlon Quotes

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.

As I started parenting, I realised there is no formula to it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

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.

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

I'm learning every day, and I have been since the minute I became a mom.

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.

Every day's a learning experience.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

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

Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on.