Navigating Parenthood Quotes

We were so unprepared that when my husband took off to get groceries, and we'd adopted a 3-year-old, he came back with baby formula, a steak and a teething ring. We had no idea what we were doing. But you learn. There's no way to fully prepare. Just eyes wide open - jump.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

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.

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

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.

One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.