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Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.