Parenting Quotes

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive.

I needed something else, some kind of juice.He gave me a hooked-eyebrow glance and took a showy swig of the water. Mmm, he said, smacking his lips. Water-juice. It's fantastic.

Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

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

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

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

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.

If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money.

A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY

My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love.

I'd rather be a 'THINKER' - Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement!

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

May my children follow their own intuition to discover true empowerment - in the answers they seek.

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.

Children see beauty in everything.

Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.

In expression of Fatherhood I evolve to become - all I was destined, to be.

Remember how we put stickers with your name on your pocessions that could be stolen.We didn't put a sticker on your innocence so don't lose it!