Parenting Difficulty Quotes

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

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

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.