David Whyte Quotes

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

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 have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

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

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

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.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

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

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

That undeniable love for your child... that's something I totally get. And the bumps in the road, too. Like, any parent that thinks they have a perfect relationship with their child is a liar, or they're just not present.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

If a parent keeps on saying that, 'my kid is not understanding me at all,' he or she needs to look inside and ask, what wrong am I doing that my child is unable to understand me?

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

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.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn't love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.