Parenting Quotes

Be fair. Play hard.

Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship.

When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom.

What did I tell you about plastic ties? Only for humans, Julie murmured.If you don't listen to me, I can't teach you anything.

The world's major religions: Same boss, different departments.

Little things spell LOVE. Beware the spouse or marriage that places a premium on expensive gifts and 'toys.

Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving.

The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live -- enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.

Jokes about butts WORKED.

Mantras are the past & the future.

Take any two-year-old through a car wash and their skulls are blown. FLAPS! FOAM! ROLLING THINGS! It's the closest they'll ever get to being inside a working spaceship.

Define your mantras, your adages, and bear down repetitively -- over and over and over!

A marvelous feeling -- that you love someone deeply -- and in turn, that person loves you back so sincerely.

FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.

Ironically, pretending that parenting is easy diminishes the value of family. As truth seekers and truth speakers, we need to be honest about the cost of parenting.

The best parenting strives to educate their children in HOW TO LIVE LIFE -- competitive, compassionate, void of greed, & striving to make a better world.

I used to wonder why I had hair on my legs, but now I know it's for my toddler sons and daughters to pull themselves up off the ground with as I scream in pain.

Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.

Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.

Since taking are of one small baby is the hardest job on earth, I am constantly late, as I am today.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.” - Bell Hooks

Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years!

Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.

Ask any child who failed to live up to his parents’ idea of success, and you’ll likely hear that they never felt good enough, or that their parents had expectations that they could not live up to.

The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them.

Correction badly undertaken creates distance.

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

I wasn’t anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Life will never be the same again. Life will be better.

Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.

In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.

What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills

Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond.

Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved.

Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

You are almost never cool to your children.

Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.

(Da) "Sorry, Son, what was that? I was too busy ignoring you."(Later) "Sorry, Son, I missed that, " Ma said. "Ignoring you can be a full-time job.

She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter.

When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn’t know whether to celebrate with champagne… or hemlock.

The Tone is the Message.

The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms.

Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.

I think . . . you should have children, John." At least he's no longer talking about bugs."I'm too young, Dad.""It's the most important thing . . . I've done in . . . my life.

If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough.