10 Oh So True Quotes About Parenting

Lately, I've been having a hard time with this whole parenting thing. I usually go for the "provide your child with options" parenting-style but it's not as easy as it seems. Adrian is 7 and talks back ALL THE TIME. He knows everything. I am always wrong. It's like raising a mini-teenager. Honestly, I am a little scared for the teenage years if its like this at 7. After a whole afternoon or arguing and fighting with him about homework, watching TV, taking a bath or going to bed, I lay in bed and cry out my frustrations. Everyone around me has a say about how I am raising him ("You need to be tougher or he is going to run all over you" type of nonsense) and all I really want is a bottle of wine and some chocolate cake. Like really, that's it. I know I have to be up the next morning for the same craziness, just give me my wine and cake!!

Sometimes, late at night, when I can't sleep since I am up thinking about one of our more recent arguments, I will grab my laptop and type "funny quotes about parenting" into Google. I love to read quotes. I get really inspired by them and these funny ones have really helped me relax. I've realized I'm going to need lots of laughs to get through age 7 (and maybe 8 and 9)! Today, I'm going to share my favorites with you:

1. "The only things kids wear out faster than shoes is their parents! "

~John J. Plomp

 2. “The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”

~ Lane Olinhouse

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

~ Franklin P. Jones

4. “Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.”

~ Ed Asner

5. “My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.”

~ Erma Bombeck

6. “If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘keep away from children.’”

~ Susan Savannah

7. "You know your life has changed when going to the grocery store by yourself is a vacation" 

~Unknown

8. "I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from "Thank God it's Friday" to "Thank God it's Monday. If any working mother has not experienced this feeling, her children are not adolescent."

~Ann Diehl

9. "Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

~Unknown

10. Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

~Marlene Cox