Parenting is hard. I mean really hard. You would think the more years you do it, the better you would get at it. That is not the case. In fact, once you have one phase of life figured out, they become teenagers! This is a list of the top quotes about parenting teenagers to keep you sane when you just cannot take yet another eye roll or snippy comment!
Funny Quotes About Parenting Teenagers- Laugh Through The Pain
Raising a teenager is learning to not expect to be spoken to before noon, dealing with mood swings, trying to not cry, all while avoiding a cocktail at noon. A good laugh is the best medicine. This is a list of funny parenting quotes to help you laugh through the pain.
Welcome to being the parent of a teenager. Prepare for large amounts of eye-rolling, emotional outbursts, and thoughts of running away. And that’s just the parents!
Anonymous
Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.
William Galvin
Welcome to parenthood. Hope you like hearing “THERE’S NOTHING TO EAT!” right after you just spent your life savings at the grocery store.
@sarcastic mommy4
Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.
Kami Garcia in Beautiful Creatures
A teenager is always too tired to hold a dishcloth, but never too tired to hold a phone.
Anonymous
Having teenagers is like living with a bowling alley inside your head.
Anonymous
Sometimes I’m left with the distinct feeling that I am outnumbered by my only child.
Colleen Ferrary Bader
Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up
Ray Romano
Raising teenagers is like trying to wrestle slippery pigs with your hands tied behind your back.
Anonymous
Not all who wander are lost. Some are just moms. In Target. Hiding from their children.
@jocieopc
My kid is turning out just like me. Well played, karma. Well-played.
Anonymous
When you’re a teenager, ‘No’ is a complete sentence.
Anonymous
You try your hardest to raise your teenagers with patience, honesty and good manners, but they still end up being like you.
Anonymous
I love when my kids tell me they’re bored. As if the lady standing in front of a full sink of dirty dishes is where you go to get ideas about how to have a good time.
Anonymous
Hey teens! If you think you’re angry now, just wait until you have to spend your own money on toilet paper.
Unknown
Teen tried to make a dramatic exit by slamming my door, but there was a towel on the knob. No slam, & no dignity for her as I died laughing
Six_Pack_Mom
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Anonymous
You know you’re the parent of a teenager if they won’t answer any of your calls, but they will call you 27 times in a row until you answer.
Raising Teens Today
Raising teens makes you regret all the time you wasted worrying about things like sippy cups and how much your kid pooped.
Whitney Fleming, Playdates on Friday
The thing I like about having teens is how they make a bunch of plans because they’re “independent” & then ask to borrow money.
@sarcasticmommy4
I’d love to be a Pinterest mom. But it turns out I’m more of an Amazon Prime mom.
Anonymous
It’s like no one in my family appreciates that I stayed up all night overthinking for them.
Anonymous
When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Nora Ephron
The scariest part of raising teenagers is remembering the stupid things you did as a teenager.
Whitney Fleming, Playdates on Fridays
The main problem with teenagers is that they’re just like their parents were at their age.
Anonymous
The problem with disciplining a teenager is that in no time at all you begin to sound like one yourself.
Anonymous
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
I know I’m supposed to be preparing my teenager for life and all, but it’s hard when they already know everything…
Whitney Fleming, Playdates on Fridays
You can be a mess and still be a good mom. We are allowed to be both.
@katiebinghamsmith
Bribes are the glue that kept the teenagers and the parents connected for generations.
Gayle Forman
If parenthood has taught me one thing it’s that it is possible for a kid to shower for 40 minutes without actually getting clean.
Let Me Start By Saying Blog
I never really appreciated just how annoying I was until I gave birth to mini versions of myself and started arguing with them when they became teenagers.
Anonymous
As a mom of teenagers sometimes all I need is a hug and someone to tell me everything is going to be ok. Oh, and a million dollars, a week in the Bahamas and a bottle of wine would be nice too…
Unknown
If you want to get closer to God drive in the passenger seat with a teenage driver. You’ll be reciting prayers you haven’t said in years.
Unknown
I love being a parent of teenagers. I mean, yes, there’s the hormones, the skin problems, the bad hair days, the crying, the mood swings. But enough about me. My kids are great.
Unknown
“Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.”
Al Bernstein.
I thought raising teenagers would be like those goofy old Brady Bunch episodes about curfews, acne and dating. It’s not. It’s more like Survivor meets Dateline – hang in there and don’t murder anyone.
4Boys Mother
No need to worry about your teenagers when they’re not at home. A national survey revealed that they all go to the same place – ‘out’ – and they all do the same thing – ‘nothing.’”
Bruce Lansky
“Nothing makes me more nervous than a text from my teenage son that says ‘How soon will you and mom be home?”
Travis Bone
To an adolescent, there is nothing more embarrassing than a parent.
Dave Barry
What it’s like to have a conversation with a teenager: Parent: “Have a nice day!” Teenager: “Don’t tell me how to live my life!”
Her View From Home
I’ll see your toddler tantrum and raise you a teen that just had their phone taken away.
Mommy Needs A Life
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Quotes To Let Your Teen Know You Love Their Guts
Though your teen can be exasperating, you love your kid more than anything. I mean truly love their guts. Here is a list of quotes about parenting teenagers and loving them through it all.
Dear Teenagers: We may annoy you, lecture you, embarrass you, drive you crazy and even make you hate us some days. But NO ONE will ever love you like we do.— Moms of Teens Everywhere
Unknown
Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers, he said. I think that’s kind of the point of them.
Jojo Moyes, After You
As kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go, it’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
Ron Taffel
I thought I used to “worry” a lot when my kids were little. Then I had teenagers. You know what I would give right now to worry about sippy cups and naptime? EVERYTHING.
4Boys Mother
Raising a teenager is hard… But, being a teenager is hard, too, which is why our kids need someone they trust to lean on, to come to for advice, and to share their lives – the good, the bad and the ugly. Having a front-row seat in our kids’ lives is a far better place to be than sitting on the highest bleacher.
Raising Teens Today
A daughter is someone you laugh with, dream with and love with all your heart.
Unknown
The funny thing about kids is, they are the reason we lose it and the reason we hold it together.
Unknown
I don’t just want to get through the teenage years. I want to cherish these years when my children are still living under my roof and sleeping in their beds and eating my food. I want to store up memories.
I want to see stories come full circle. I want to have deep conversations. I want to honor big moments. I want to appreciate ordinary days. I want to celebrate accomplishments no one else sees.
I want to look back with gratitude and forward with hope. I want to know I did not take the gift of these years for granted. Because the love I have for my teens is not something I have to get through; it’s something I’m holding onto.
Guilty Chocoholic Mama
When your child is little, all you want is for them to play alone in their room for an hour so you can have some peace and quiet. Then they become teenagers, and all you want is for them to come out of their room for an hour and actually talk to you.
I Might Be Funny
You will teach them to fly, but they will not fly your flight. You will teach them to dream, but they will not dream your dream. You will teach them to live, but they will not live your life. Nevertheless, in every flight, in every life, in every dream, the print of the way you taught them will remain.
Mother Teresa
Sometimes my children think I’m getting on their back. What they don’t realize is that oftentimes I’m the only one who has their back.
Unknown
Being a mom of a teenager means a lot of forgiveness, a lot of grace, a lot of grit and love that is both powerful and unconditional. But what a blessing it is to raise these teenagers and have a front row seat on this wild ride.
Faith Love and Chaos
“As parents we have a tendency to overprotect; it’s okay to try and show them all positives but we cannot forget that the real world has teeth.”
Johnnie Dent Jr.
Helpful Quotes About Parenting Teenagers
When you are at your wit’s end and need some advice or words of wisdom, check out this list of quotes about parenting teenagers. These helpful quotes will remind you you are not alone and eventually they will grow out of this phase of life.
“When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.”
Aidan Chambers
“Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a godly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.”
Catherynne M. Valente
Adolescence is perhaps nature’s way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.
Anonymous
It is easy to be a good parent to a good child, but what makes a good parent, is dealing and being there for a difficult child, that is a really good parent!
Beta Metani’Marashi
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.”
Eddie Vedder
What’s More Important: Your Ego or Hearing Your Child?
C. Lynn Williams, Trying to Stay Sane While Raising Your Teen
Whatever emotional state you’re in while parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you’re doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks “on paper.” In other words, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, “your emotional state is the message.”
Michael Y. Simon The Approximate Parent: Discovering the Strategies that Work for Your Teenager
“Teenage life – possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.”
Jonathan Lethem.
What strengthens the bonds between the children and their parents is spreading the fun and humor during family gatherings and times, and enforcing the feeling of every child’s importance to their parents, and giving them the confidence that they will and can face life without falling in the wrong, sin, or guilt.
Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi
The gift of faith given to your children will last longer than any monetary gift.
Eve M. Harrell, Confessions of a Helicopter Mom
The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp
Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time (adolescence) is, insisting on the same unreasoning obedience as when all he had to do in the way of duty was, to obey the simple laws of “Come when you’re called,” and “Do as you’re bid!”
But a wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Imagination is something that sits up with dad and mom the first time their teenager stays out late.
Anonymous
Conscious parenting is not about being perfect, it’s about being aware. Aware of what your kids need from you to reach more of their full potential.
Alex Urbina, The Inspirational Parent: The Magical Ingredients For Effective Parenting
The effective criticism is the one that focuses on behavior, not on personality. The difference between both realizes it every rational parent and educator. The directed criticism on the boy’s or on the girl’s personality will burn the space that all the family members stand on.
Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi
No, being concerned is not good, because if you are concerned too much, you will become tense. And if you become tense you cannot help.
Osho, Beloved of My Heart: A Darshan Diary
Meaningful Quotes To Pass On To Your Teenager
The world belongs to your kids. Does your teen need the motivation to see the prospect of their future? Here are some motivational, inspirational, and meaningful quotes to pass on to your teenager.
“Be true to yourself….make each day a masterpiece…help others…drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.”
John Wooden
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
Steve Martin
“Don’t worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.”
Frank Peretti
“Tough times never last but tough people do.”
Robert H. Schuller
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not ok, it’s not the end.”
John Lennon
“Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!”
Gabby Douglas
“Try walking forward while looking over your shoulder and see how far you get. The same goes for life. Look forward!”
Martin Henderson
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Robin Williams
“Be forgiving with your past self. Be strict with your present self. Be flexible with your future self.”
James Clear
“Don’t compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.”
Toby Keith
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
Bertrand Russel
In summary
Raising a teen has its ups and downs. There are good days and hard days. Though this can be a difficult time, take heart in knowing you are not alone. Whether you need a good laugh, the reassurance you are doing the best you can do, or a quote to pass on to your child, it is my hope this list of quotes about parenting teenagers will brighten your day.
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