Best New Parents Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“‘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’.”

“We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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Book:Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and what We Can Do about it

Source: Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and what We Can Do about it

“The best advice I can give to new parents is to realize immediately that your children will be unique individuals. Give them the space to be themselves and to develop their own personalities and characteristics.”

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Author:Donald Trump

“New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.”

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Book:Babyhood

Source: Babyhood

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

“What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.”

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Book:Time to Be in Earnest

Source: Time to Be in Earnest

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“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.”

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Author:Uma Thurman

“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.”

Source: At Home in the World: A Memoir

“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.”

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”

Source: Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh

“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”

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Author:Benjamin Spock

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

“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.”

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Author:Prince William

“However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.”

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Author:Robert Winston

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

“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.”

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Book:Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

“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.”

Source: Fatherhood

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

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

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.”

“You will always be your child's favorite toy.”

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Author:Vicki Lansky

“A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”

Source: The Conspiracy Against Childhood

“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.”

“Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.”

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Author:Gail Sheehy

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

“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.”

“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.”

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.”

Source: At Home in the World: A Memoir

“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.”

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Author:Prince William

“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.”

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Author:Leslie Morgan Steiner

“I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?”

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Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

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