Parenting Quotes
Parenting Quote of the day
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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.
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.
