Brene Brown Quotes

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

It is always fragile, being a parent.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

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

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.

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

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?

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

Kids don't come with instruction manuals. It's interesting, but after you have your kids, it's a blessing. It's not as hard as people may think it is.

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

You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.