Brene Brown Quotes

You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.

There isn't a clear-cut way to be a parent. We will all make mistakes.

Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a little afraid we're doing it wrong.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

They [Mark and Jay Duplass] both have young kids and talk about parenting all the time. So they get it. So they knew that it was a very delicate time and they knew that it was a lot. All it did was make me want to protect them from - and protect production from - any kind of burden.

I don't know what the f--k I'm talking about with parenting.

I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

You're going to figure it out, as you go. I think that's how people feel about having children, as well. You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.

An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.

I'm pretty sure the feeling of inadequacy is universal for moms.

Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.

There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.

Having children is messy and easy to judge.

There's no mantra for bringing up a kid.

As I started parenting, I realised there is no formula to it.

Raising children is like a hit and run. You've been hit, you can't flag the person down, you're wounded and you don't know who to blame, and no one helps you. And it's weeks, maybe months, before you find out what really happened.