Parenting Quotes

Parenting Quote of the day

Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.

I didn't just see a child in my dreams—I felt it in my heart.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.

There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Everything depends on upbringing.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.

I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace, as anyone who has worked in my chambers can attest.

The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!

The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving ways

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

We all need a cheering committee and parents are a child's most important fans!

The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.

Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment.

Forgive your child and yourself nightly. You didn't ask to live with the effects of ADHD any more than did your child.

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

How to raise sons who respect women:Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.

You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.

Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Youthful strength is a great blessing.

The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them and onto YOU.

A father is as much a verb as a mother.

When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard.

Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .