Kourtney Kardashian Quotes

People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

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

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

There was kind of a no-nonsense parenting style that my parents had that was true of the time. Everything now... there are books, and there are websites, and there are blogs, and you're reading, and there's research. We're such an interconnected world now, and half the stuff they did was pretty terrible, but we somehow turned out fine.

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

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

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.

I think there's different parenting styles.

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

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

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

Apart from sharing my tips on toys or snacks, I'm open to hearing new ideas from other moms. I want to learn, too.

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

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.

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

Parenting definitely has some challenging moments.

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

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.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

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

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.