#parenthood

If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice. ↗

— Kelly Corrigan

#life

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#dignity #feet #great #ground #helps

Having kids - the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings - is the biggest job anyone can embark on. As with any risk, you have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of wonderful people for their help and guidance. I thank God every day for giving me the opportunity to parent. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#faith

One of the ridiculously difficult things about raising children is that they are constantly developing and changing so that just when you think you have them figured out, they throw you a curve, a new twist you never saw coming. They are like mutating viruses - as soon as you have become immune to their latest shenanigans, they develop a new strain to which you have yet to be exposed. While this constant shape-shifting is one of the greatest challenges of parenting, it is also one of the things which makes them so fascinating and wonderful. ↗

— Amy E. Spiegel

#change

Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad. ↗

— Paul Asay

#fatherhood #inspiration #parenthood #rolemodeling #inspirational

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources? ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#education #environment #parenthood #parenting #resources

Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#parenthood #parenting #quote #life

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#growing-up #love #parenthood #love

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#becoming #biggest #cannot #change #change things

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#feeding #hand #more #nothing #parenthood