Nia Vardalos Quotes

Fathers, for the first time, we have no clue what we're doing. I had no idea when I became a father.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.

You're going to figure it out, as you go. I think that's how people feel about having children, as well. You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

Motherhood is quite challenging. Everyday is a whole new adventure with your child.

Have a baby, and you realize: The second you think you got sh-t figured out, you don't. It's the greatest wake-up call.

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

I'm a work in progress. You know, my kids didn't come with instructions... and neither did this business, so when I put the two of them together, I gotta take it a little at a time.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

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

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

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

I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.

I don't think anything can prepare you for parenthood.

Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.

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

Now it's not D.T.F., It's now, diapers, tantrums and formula.

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

Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most utopias end and by some measure fail. And just because they're a failure doesn't mean there isn't value there.

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.