A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?