12 Star Wars Quotes for Parents

X-wingRogue One, the latest Star Wars movie, comes out this week, so I’m sharing these quotes from the original trilogy that, to me, shine a light on the epic adventure that is parenting.

The quotes are taken from the longer piece I wrote last year when The Force Awakens came out, about what the series meant to me as both a child and an adult.

  1. “Watch yourself. This place can be a little rough.” Parenting isn’t always delightful family dinners and warm good night stories. It’s also skinned knees, lost toys, long nights, toddler tantrums, teen angst, and other challenges.
  2. “I’m not afraid.” “You will be.” That moment when you first bring your child home and wonder where the user manual is.
  3. “Judge me by my size, do you?” A warning to every parent of a two-year-old.
  4. “Traveling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy.” And raising a child isn’t like anything else one has ever experienced.
  5. “In my experience, there’s no such thing as luck.” Which is why we all buy car seats and bike helmets for our kids.
  6. “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” When you hear maniacal giggling from your little ones in the other room, followed by a crash.
  7. “Never tell me the odds.” Soccer practice and a piano lesson on the same day, when your washing machine quits and you have an emergency at work? No problem.
  8. “Don’t get cocky.” Notwithstanding #7, remember you’re only as good as your handling of the current crisis.
  9. “It’s a trap!” Something to keep in mind when your child asks, “You always said you didn’t like that antique vase your aunt gave you, right?”
  10. “Sorry about the mess.” Something you’ll say frequently to friends until your child is . . . well, perhaps grown and out of the house.
  11. “Stay on target.” It’s helpful to remember the basic goal—raising reasonably well-adjusted human beings to adulthood with a minimum of harm to themselves or others—when dealing with daily challenges.
  12. “Do or do not. There is no try.” Parenting in a nutshell.

 

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