Haylie Duff Quotes

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.

I think there's different parenting styles.

I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple - that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn't to me at the time.

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

You don't know your child until they get here; you don't know their personality.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

Trump must've been an extraordinary father to have raised well-adjusted kids.

I understand how important it is for both parents to be in a child's life.