Becoming A Parent Quotes

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn’t stop.

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea – wink, wink.

Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you’re the kind of person who’s going to have that feeling about a dog you’re definitely going to have that about a child.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.

There are so many things I’d like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.