Parenting Demands Quotes

It's unfair to the hard-core stay-at-home moms to pretend you're able to have an amazing body by chasing around your kids.

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

Sometimes I think about all the hours spent making lunches, carting kids from one place to another, being up in the middle of the night taking temperatures. People who haven't had to do that have, say, read every last book up there from cover to cover and probably remember it. There are trade-offs. But more life is more life.

It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

There is a huge tension in trying to write with small children because they demand your attention and your time with a fierceness that can be matched by nothing else, but if you are successful in writing while you have small children, I actually think that your writing is likely to be deeper than it was before.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.