We all feel like the worst parent on the playground sometimes, but good advice can help you score major parenting wins. Or at least change your perspective on what the true “wins” of raising kids are (Hint: not perfection).<\/p>
Of course, there’s no recipe for perfect parenting, and fortunately you don’t even have to be perfect to be a parent. Here are 15 parenting quotes to inspire your toughest parenting days.<\/p>
We all love to feel needed, but ultimately, it’s not the end goal. <\/p>
Kids will forever and ever surprise you — and ultimately, that’s a good thing!<\/p>
Nothing prepares you for the first time you leave your child, even just to go to the bathroom. You feel that first pull. Then, when your baby is, say, a teenager, that’s when you realize that pull never lets up.<\/p>
You will never regret dropping everything for ten minutes to play a game with your kid. Looking back on all those lost hours spent scrolling through Facebook, on the other hand …<\/p>
The best way to get your child to stop texting and talk to you is to put down your<\/em> phone and talk to him.<\/p> Every parent has moments when they lose their cool. But it’s important to remember that when you keep your cool, that’s probably when your kids actually hear you most.<\/p> This is one of the toughest jobs of parenthood. Staying calm amid the chaos — it’s what kids in crisis, no matter how small, need the very most.<\/p> As they are growing up, kids are going to feel so many things about themselves. That’s why it’s important they have a consistent support system who roots for them no matter what.<\/p> Do you know your child’s superpower? Tell her you’re proud to be her parent every day. Your kids probably aren’t on Facebook, so they can’t see how much you brag about them.<\/p> Let’s do our best to see our children for who they are and encourage them every day to be those amazing people.<\/p> Go ahead and sit in the moment, moms and dads. We can’t slow down time, but we can certainly take a moment to try and enjoy it.<\/p> Let’s not compare ourselves to other parents. Being there and loving your children, however that looks, is pretty darn perfect.<\/p> You are raising a living, breathing human being. Enjoy the ride.<\/p> A little doting on our kids is fine, but don’t forget to teach them how to take care of themselves along the way.<\/p> You may think setting the groundwork is the big challenge of parenthood, but letting your kids succeed or fail on their own — that’s the hard part.<\/p> Hey, parenting was super easy before you had kids, right?<\/p> There are always bad days and bad phases in parenting, and it’s OK to talk about them. It doesn’t help any of us to pretend it’s always unicorns and sunshine.<\/p> And if you ever feel stuck or need help along the way, it’s always the right answer to reach out to your support system, your doctor or your child’s pediatrician.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Raising kids isn’t always easy, but these parenting quotes put things in perspective and nail what moms and dads can’t put into words. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1490,"featured_media":7704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"2024-07-09 00:00:00","last_update":"2024-07-09","view_count":81339,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member-type":[3],"vertical":[6,17],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","member-type-seeker","vertical-children","vertical-child-care-advice","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":"2015-12-23","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216621,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/216621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}6. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” — Rumi, poet<\/h2>
7. “When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not join their chaos.” ― L.R. Knost, author<\/h2>
8. “Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become.” — Brooke Hampton, author<\/h2>
9. “<\/strong>Don’t tell your kids, ‘I’m proud of you.’ tell them, ‘You should be proud of yourself’.” — Kristen Welch, author<\/h2>
10. “Children do not need us to shape them. They need us to respond to who they are.” — Naomi Aldort, author<\/h2>
11. “I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.” ― Anna Quindlen, author<\/h2>
12. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” ― Jill Churchill, author<\/h2>
13. “The moment you begin to actively discover the amazing personhood of your child, parenting starts to feel like less of a burden and more of an adventure.” — Angela Pruess, licensed child therapist<\/strong><\/h2>
14. “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” ― Ann Landers<\/h2>
15. “<\/strong>It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.” — Robert Breault, author<\/h2>
16. “It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.” — Erma Bombeck, humorist<\/h2>
17. “It’s right to talk about motherhood as a wonderful thing, but we also need to talk about its stresses and strains. It’s OK not to find it easy. Asking for help should not be seen as a sign of weakness.” — Kate Middleton, <\/strong>Duchess of Cambridge<\/h2>