Co-Parenting Quotes to Keep your Sanity
Co-parenting is no easy job! In fact, over 50% of the U.S population has either remarried or recoupled. Causing many children to suffer from social emotional regulation.
- “Let’s raise our child together rather than making them choose which parent to pick.” -unknown
- “The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest treasures in your life. You may have moved on, but your children have not. If you can’t be her soulmate, then at least be thoughtful. Whom your children love should always be someone that you acknowledge with kindness. Your children notice everything and will follow your example.” -Shannon Alder
- “At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of the parents.” -Jane D. Hull
- “Your child comes first. That’s all. It’s all about that. He comes first and you have to get past your own egos and you never talk bad about each other.” -Idina Menzel
- “Though we are broken, but, we can still show the world that broken is beautiful by co-parenting our child.” -unknown
- “Thumbs up for parents and step-parents who co-parent! Children need to feel safe and loved in both homes.” -unknown
- “Co-parenting. It’s not a competition between two homes. It’s a collaboration of parents doing what is best for the kids.” -Heather Hetchler
- “The more co-parents communicate with one another about the children, the less likely for small issues to grow into major problems.” -unknown
- “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other.” -Richard Bach
- “The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.” -Jane Blaustone
- “Family is a world where we can settle any differences if we learn to compromise and accept.” -unknown
- “Make a positive difference in your children’s lives. Act and speak about your co-parent with respect and integrity.” -Allison Pescosolido
- “Co-parenting is not a competition. It’s a collaboration of two homes working together with the best interest of the child at heart. Work for your kids, not against them.” -unknown
- “It’s about prioritizing. Just take it one step at a time. Do the best you can. I’m a mom and I have two husbands—an ex-husband and a next husband. It’s a blended family and it’s very hard to keep things together, but we’re happy and we live in love.” -Kimora Lee Simmons
- “If you love your child more than you hate your ex, you can solve most co-parenting problems.” -Helen Fried
- “But at the end of the day, we’ve got a great kid who’s got two parents who love him very much. And we’re finding a way to navigate this while still remaining friends and still being kind to one another.” -Chris Pratt
- “Co-parenting is not asking permission. It’s about discussing your child’s needs and wants and deciding what’s best.” -unknown
- “If Matt and I had a great relationship, we would still be together, but we chose to move on because we had different visions of how we wanted to live our lives. That doesn’t mean, though, that we can’t rebuild something that would be the best thing for the kids.” -Kate Hudson
- “Co parenting can show how we can achieve happiness for all the parents and their children.” -unknown
- “Children deserve both parents. They deserve to know that their parents respect each other, if nothing else.” -Jewel Kilcher
- “The best, most mature co-parent will tell their therapist – and not their child – how much the other parent sucks.” -unknown
- “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” -Robert Fulghum
- “We both realize that we’re parents and we’re in it for our kid, and that’s made it really easy,” -Pete Wentz
- “I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.” -Beverly Cleary
- “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” -Barbara Johnson
- “Children shouldn’t have to sacrifice so that you can have the life you want. You make sacrifices so your children can have the life they deserve.” -unknown
- “Think of it as an important business project; you don’t always love the person that you’re working with, but you work together to get the project done. Co-parents need to adopt this same business model when co-parenting their children.” -Kela Price
- “Kids need parents, not a part-time visitor with a checkbook.” -unknown
- “You have to get to that point as a divorced parent, as any parent, where you’re not putting yourself first. You want the kids’ experience to be its own and not like, ‘Well, I need to have my time!’ We have been very good about that.” -Ryan Phillippe
- “This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face, learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.” -Lyanila Vanzant
- “A healthy and positive co-parenting relationship is nothing short of a gift.” -unknown
- “I have pictures up of me and Wiz in our son’s room so he can always come in and see us being happy together. We try to have family days with him, even though we’re not together. Kids want to see their parents together and if you can’t be together in a relationship, you’ve got to come together as friends for your baby.” -Amber Rose
- “The best obligation as a parent is to not bring chaos into your children’s lives.” -unknown
- “Remember you are not managing an inconvenience. You are raising a human being.” -Kittie Frantz
- “Effective parenting has nothing to do with pointing out our faults and everything to do with working out solutions.” -L.R. Knost
- “At the end of the day, you’ve got to be a little selfless. You have to say ‘It’s not about us. This didn’t work out quite how we wanted it to but look at the amazing blessing that we have in these wonderful children.’ So you kinda put everything else to the side and really focus.” -Nick Cannon
- “Co-parenting can be difficult but if the two parents continue to have open and honest communication. That builds trust which makes co-parenting easier for everyone.” -unknown
- “A narcissist will never co-parent with you. They will counter parent. They don’t care about the emotional damage that the constant drama inflicts upon the children as long as it causes emotional drama to you.” -A.Price
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