“The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.”
Mel Lazarus
“Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.”
Marcelene Cox
“Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn /the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.”
Freya Stark
“There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you”
Peter De Vries
“Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance.”
Jane Adams
“Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”
Alvin Toffler
“Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.”
Phyllis McGinley
