New Parents Quotes

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  • You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

  • What every new parent needs.a ton of expert advice, presented with humor and zero negativity, from two moms who instantly feel like your best friends. This is the one pregnancy guide that new parents will actually want to read.

    Mom   Zero   Pregnancy  
  • Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries.

    Baby   Jobs   Crazy  
    Harvey Karp, M.D. (2008). “The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer”, p.20, Bantam
  • We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

    "Royal Truths, etc".
  • It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

    Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan
  • The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it hasn’t told us yet.” Personally, I think no question containing “either/or” deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.

    Girl   Boys   Thinking  
    Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.56, Routledge
  • A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

    Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum
  • I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find...a lot of things affect me differently now. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.

  • Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

    Positive   Family   Trust  
    The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)
  • To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  • Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

    Love   Teacher   Children  
  • In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

    Courage   Children   Dark  
    Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group
  • What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

    P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber
  • If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

    Mom   Mother   Children  
  • You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  • Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

    Mother   Flower   Sleep  
  • Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

    Love   Family   Marriage  
  • Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

  • As one does with a first child, I found out that my baby could roll by hearing the sound of her body hit the ground at 4 a.m. and obviously, for any new parent, that is the most horrifying thing that could happen, right? You're exhausted and you take your tiny little baby out and you put them on the bed to change diapers before nursing and you turn around and you discover... my baby can roll! And you think you're going to die.

    Baby   Children   Nursing  
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  • If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

  • You will always be your child's favorite toy.

    Mom   Children   Parent  
    "Trouble-free Travel with Children: Helpful Hints for Parents on the Go". Book by Vicki Lansky, 1991.
  • I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato

    Baby   Hate   Parent  
  • As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.

    Children   Parent   Shows  
    Interview with CNN's Max Foster, edition.cnn.com. August 19, 2013.
  • A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

  • There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.

    Sheila B. Kamerman, Alfred J. Kahn (1995). “Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and what We Can Do about it”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

    Family   Children   Dad  
    Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”
  • Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

    "Fictional character: Jennifer Jareau". "Criminal Minds" ("Boxed In", Season 10, Episode 5), October 29, 2014.
  • I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it. . . . So don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

    Strong   Jobs   Children  
  • There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  • ‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ There is a great answer to that one going around: ‘We don’t know; it hasn’t told us yet’.

    Girl   Boys   Answers  
    "Gender outlaw". Book by Kate Bornstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1994.
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