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Famous Toddler Quotes
Having children is like living in a frat house nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up. Ray Romano
Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? Milton Berle
New mothers are often told that once they’ve fed, burped, and changed their baby they should leave their baby alone to self soothe if they cry because all of their needs have been met. One day I hope all new mothers will smile confidently and say, I gave birth to a baby, not just a digestive system. My baby as a brain that needs to learn trust and a heart that needs love. I will meet all of my baby’s needs, emotional, mental, and physical, and I’ll respond to every cry because crying is communication, not manipulation. L.R. Knost
A two year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it. Jerry Seinfeld
The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed. John Green
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out. Erma Bombeck
The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller
You’re going to make mistakes as a parent. It’s literally inevitable. You’re human, and mistakes are just part of being human. It’s how you handle your mistakes that matters most. Acknowledge them. Apologize for them. Make them as right as possible. Learn something from them. And then let them go. It’s okay. I promise. After all, how else will our little humans learn that it’s okay to be human. L.R. Knost
You can be a mess and still be a good mom. We are allowed to be both. Katie Bingham Smith
We are imperfect humans growing imperfect humans in an imperfect world, and that’s perfectly okay. L.R. Knost
The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable. Lane Olinghouse
With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One minute you’re a horse and the next minute you’re a ballerina. Being a parent can make you do strange things especially when it’s bedtime. But somehow the little ones just have a way with you. Bijou Playpen
Becoming a parent doesn’t make you less of a woman. You matter. Your happiness matters. Your health matters. Your dreams matter. Today do at least one thing for you. Take a walk in the rain. Meet a friend for coffee. Write in your journal. Read a book. Plan a trip. Hug a tree. Help a stranger. Create something. Grow something. Sing something. Learn something. Whatever it is that makes you smile, do a little of it each day. Your children are watching. Let them see you happy. L.R. Knost
When you have brought up toddlers, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. Robert Brault
Lila harboured an unspoken belief that motherhood was the best possible rehearsal for a prospective police officer. Mothers were naturals for law enforcement, because toddlers, like criminals, were often belligerent and destructive. If you could get through those early years without losing your cool or blowing your top, you might be able to deal with grown up crime. The key was to not react, to stay adult. Stephen King
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones
Night waking isn’t the sign of a bad baby. It’s the sign of a normal baby. Nighttime needs are as valid as daytime needs and nighttime parenting as necessary as daytime parenting. Crying is communication, not manipulation. Respond to your baby’s cries, even if all they need is to know you’re there. You’re not being manipulated. You’re being a parent. L.R. Knost
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too. John Ruskin
It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone automatically makes you more mentally mature than them. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The reason I love toddlers so much is because they’re so honest, so you know right away if they like you or they don’t. Colin Egglesfield
Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I love toddlers, but they are a tough audience. Robin Williams
Sticks and stones may break bones, but words can shatter souls. Choose carefully the words you say to others. Choose wisely the words you say to yourself. Words have a way of becoming truths we believe about ourselves. And what we believe, we become. L.R. Knost
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves. Joybell C.
Our parents would not be The best parents in the world to us if they were not our parents. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Toddlers are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful. Charles Osgood
The moment you realize that you aren’t creating a cut and paste version of yourself, but rather nurturing a stunningly unique individual with thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears and opinions and preferences and plans and interests of their own is the moment parenting becomes an adventure instead of a challenge. It’s a simple shift in perspective that creates a world of difference. L.R. Knost
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman
Many believe that parenting is about controlling children’s behavior and training them to act like adults. I believe that parenting is about controlling my own behavior and acting like an adult myself. Children learn what they live and live what they learn. L.R. Knost
There’s nothing more contagious than the laughter of toddlers; it doesn’t even have to matter what they’re laughing about. Criss Jami
It’s Ms. Hilda’s magic drawer! That’s where Ms. Hilda finds everything we need. Crayons, papers, glitters, candies, everything! Tamar Bobokhidze
A child enters your home and for the next 20 or so years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. Then the child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. John Andrew Holmes
Bıg connections are created when bıg people care about the little things that matter to little people. L.R. Knost
You don’t know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don’t have a child, you don’t know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever. Regina King
Improvement, to be found in all things. Alogaristw
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children, the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. Benjamin Spock
Ignorance and curiosity often make toddlers do things that make them seem suicidal. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What it’s like to be a parent It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. Nicholas Sparks
We can all share with Nora and then she will have breakfast too! Tamar Bobokhidze
Accept the children the way we accept trees with gratitude, because they are a blessing but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are. Isabel Allende
This not how you hide, Corin!Tamar Bobokhidze
Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It’s extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible. Uma Thurman
The goal of parenting shouldn’t be to prepare children to withstand the world, but to grow children who will change the world. L.R. Knost
Having children is a life changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day. Taylor Hanson
Young children also play to learn about the world. Why aren’t we amused when our toddler drops her food off the high chair for the hundredth time? Because we know about gravity and we have to clean it up. She, however, is extremely amused, because everything about the universe is new and interesting and open to playful discovery. Lawrence J. Cohen
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. Charles Dickens
Babies have the tendency to make adults talk like babies. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. John Bowring
Learn to Live Life from toddlers; their innocent hearts are much wiser than ours! Somya Kedia
Stop trying to perfect your children, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with them. Dr. Henker
You need your rest to feel your best! Brandi Russell
The cell phone has become the adult’s transitional object, replacing the toddler’s teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging. Margaret Heffernan
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher
When I was a toddler, we lived in Maryland and my mom would routinely pile us in the car to go see events unfolding in Washington, D.C. such as the return of Apollo astronauts, parading through the streets of D.C. on open back convertibles while we all waved pennants. Martha MacCallum
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. Karl Lagerfeld
Whenever I feel mom guilt, or I feel pressure to be a better mom to cook salmon on a bed of quinoa for my kids I just think to myself, I have suffered enough. And then I feel fine about feeding my toddler a bag of chips for dinner. Ali Wong
He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay. Suzanne Collins
When me and my sister were toddlers, it was The Jungle Book literally every day. If it was lunchtime, it was Jungle Book time. George MacKay
The smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother’s love. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. Phyllis Schlafly
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. William Makepeace Thackeray
With a toddler, chilling out is hard to do. Morena Baccarin
Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. Roald Dahl
My mom told me that even as a toddler I wasn’t afraid of anything. She thought something was wrong with me. I didn’t know how to walk or swim, but that didn’t stop me from crawling into the ocean and almost drowning over and over again. Julia Fox
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. Victor Hugo
I don’t believe in thinking old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid life and older adult my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life. Wayne Dyer
There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. Gail Tsukiyama
Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8 year old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two hour comic reading benders. Anthony Doerr
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! Lydia Maria Child
As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn’t get over how weird I sounded like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up. Valerie June
Much of life, fatherhood included, is the story of knowledge acquired too late nothing really prepares you for kids. Ben Fountain
The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers. Geraldo Rivera
A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way. Stephen King
I never really did years of movie after movie after movie but when you’ve got three toddlers in the house you’re performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories I act around the clock. Julia Roberts
I loved her, instantly. Of course, most parents love their children instantly. Matt Haig
The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family’s relationship with each other. Mika Brzezinski
A father knows his child’s heart, as only a child can know his fathers. Kazuo Koike
Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways. Darell Hammond
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes. Miguel de Cervantes
Up until the age of 12, I went to dog shows every weekend. Mum showed beagles. It’s a really competitive and eclectic world filled with characters who wear interesting outfits similar to Toddlers Tiaras, but with dogs. Rebel Wilson
A boy needs a father to show him how to be in the world. Ian Morgan Cron
We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age. Madeleine M. Kunin
What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. Nicholas Sparks
When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we’d get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go. Greg Lynn
There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent. Arianna Huffington
I’ve been watching Michael J. Fox since I was a toddler, basically. I watched all the Back to the Future movies! I’ve been a fan my whole life. Juliette Goglia
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S. Truman
Do I need fifty finger painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best when they’re carefully chosen and when they don’t take up much room! Gretchen Rubin
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children, the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. Benjamin Spock
I love India. I love the people, food and the environment. Yes, I am from London, but right from when I was a toddler, I’ve always lived between Mumbai and London. Jiah Khan