Parenting Quotes

Justin Young

We’ll never solve the problems we don’t talk about.

Dan Pearce

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Dan Pearce

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?

Dan Pearce

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.

Bernard Branson

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.. Bernard Branson
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything is an art, which must be mastered.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Gracious words revived our spirit and restored our soul.

Swami Dhyan Giten

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

Mark R. Brand

For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

Rea Erika Paraz Ebate

A parent's words maybe a little harsh and painful, but it will be their annoying redundant words of love and care that will mold us into a better person.

Emily Matchar

When we combine very real workplace inequalities with these romantic opt-out stories, the idea that "having it all" is a laughable goal becomes enshrined as immutable truth. And when we portray opting out as a simple matter of "choice," we ignore the systematic problems that make combining work and motherhood so difficult.

Sonia Sotomayor

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.

Stefan Molyneux

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Bill Ayers

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

Anne Lamott

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.

Ursula Hegi

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and - in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love - you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

Jim Valvano

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Dorothy Parker

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Scott Dikkers

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

Ray Romano

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

George Carlin

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

Bill Cosby

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Stephen Colbert

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

Neil Gaiman

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

Jim Beaver

While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.

C. JoyBell C.

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

Mitch Albom

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

Anne Frank

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.

Barbara Johnson

To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.

Betty Friedan

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question- 'Is this all?

Cheryl Lacey Donovan

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.

Jane Clayson Johnson

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

Thomas Stephen Szasz

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

Alison Espach

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

Benjamin Spock

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Rebecca Eanes

When you've had one call after another and your little one is tugging on your shirt, remember what really matters. When the milk is splattered all over the floor and those little eyes are looking at you for your reaction, remember what really matters. It takes 5 minutes to clean up spilled milk; it takes much longer to clean up a broken spirit.

Umberto Eco

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.

John Rosemond

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

Jodi Picoult

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Lisa Bedrick

To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.

Stormie Omartian

Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God.

Simon Soloveychik

Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.

Rodney Dangerfield

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

Glenn Doman

The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he'll want to do. The less you test him, the quicker he will learn and the more he'll want to learn. Knowledge is the most precious gift you can give your child. Give it as generously as you give him food.

Greg Mortenson

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.

John Holt

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.

Russell Baker

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

John Taylor Gatto

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?

Charlotte M. Mason

Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.

C.S. Lewis

we (modern society) make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

Rachel Gathercole

Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults and other children of all ages.

Allan Lokos

Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.

Daniel Palladino

Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama…or something.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Martin Luther

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

Jonathan Franzen

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

L.R. Knost

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

Randy Pausch

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

Kirsten Siggins

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

Lailah Gifty Akita

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

Alcurtis Turner

Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don't spank your child show them some attention.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams

Carew Papritz

It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.

Michelle Sutton

With a lump forming in his throat, he thought
about all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More than
anything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw up
like his dad when it came to love and marriage.

Joe McNally

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.

Christopher Earle

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Robert B. Reich

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it. That is all there is for any of us.

Miya Yamanouchi

You don't need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the true difference in the long run.

Elisa Albert

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

J. Richard Singleton

No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.

PeggySue Wells

You can say the same thing nicely.

Swami Dhyan Giten

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

Stefan Molyneux

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

P.A. Speers

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will." Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

Daniel J. Siegel

In a brain scan, relational pain - that caused by isolation during punishment - can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

Lisa Wingate

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

Suzy Kassem

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.

Stormie Omartian

Children who have faith have distinctly different characteristics from those who don't. In fact, one of the main manifestations of a person with strong faith is the ability to give - not just in terms of money or possessions, but also time, love, and encouragement.

Brenda M. McGraw

Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. "NO?

Ruth Minshull

What is success, after all, but doing what you really want to do?

Charisse Montgomery

Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don't Discipline them out of hatred

Chaim Potok

I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!

Richelle E. Goodrich

Someday my children will look fondly on the annoying things I did and see them clearly as evidence of love.

Carew Papritz

KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It’s that SIMPLE.

Jenny Wingfield

They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly that they might find that child dead.

Charisse Montgomery

With emotions ranging from fear, grief and anger to happiness and relief, the process of bringing home a child who needs in-home care can be complicated

Moffat Machingura

No matter how long the preparation,
you will never feel ready to write an
exam, to start a business, to be parent
or even to die. Just go for it.

Heather Choate Davis

The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.

Anna White

The first night in the hospital with a snuffling baby girl, I learned that my family was not the only thing that had expanded. There was now a whole new world of opportunities for judgment and self-doubt.

Bryan Oftedahl

As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation or verbal assault. Ah, the naked leading the blind.

Emilie Buchwald

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

Nick Hornby

Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.

Kaiden Blake

Raise your children to love and embrace others. Tell them they are beautiful; they may grow up to be stars one day, and "beautiful" will never mean as much in a magazine as it will coming from you.

Isabel Quintero

Why is every mom's concern about sex? There are more important things in life, like school, careers, poetry, books, ice cream, or learning how to make the perfect chocolate cake. It's so damn frustrating.

Tonya D. Floyd

Love with your whole heart, and never be sorry you did.-tdf

Richard Louv

An environment-based education movement-at all levels of education-will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

Richard Louv

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

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