We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.

- Liane Moriarty

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

- Henry Reed

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

- Rose Kennedy

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.

- Mary J. Blige

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

- Marlee Matlin

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

- Mayim Bialik

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

- Quentin Crisp

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.

- Mayim Bialik

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

- Polly Berrien Berends

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.

- Andrew J. Bernstein