Parenting Quotes
Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.
The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.
The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.
The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.
The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.
Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this:1. H
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.
People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...
that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.
With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.
The most important question I ask myself as a parent is this. How can I best help my children be fully themselves and happy with who they are in the world, however they show up.
She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again for her children.
One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the trees. I pray to the wind that he will grow old and die well.
Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower.
Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open.
Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It’s called being an example.
I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.
Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.
Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.
I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love.
If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.
A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate the child within.
It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.
Help your child see others' emotions as well as experiencing his or her own without imposing your judgment.
The best gift you can give your children is to keep yourself emotionally, physically, spiritually and intellectually healthy.
My son, Edward, at 4, to a neighbor boy who was being a pain in our backyard: "Oh, don't whine. my mom will throw you right out of here.
Worrying about life’s circumstances of those I love, but over which I have no control is a dangerous, never-ending and pointless game to play.
The phrase ‘Boys will be boys, ’ reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.
When your kids get excited, let them have that feeling and share the excitement with them. Sharing makes it bigger.
I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.
Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
The zeal of kids is to explore! Until you know how to sustain the real interest of your child, the real interest of your child shall be sustained by something else!
No children are so divine that they do not need responsible parenting and be taught proper manners.
Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down.
When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.
Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.
Unsatisfied parents produce professionally successful but personally discontent children.
Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.
Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.
Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child.
Parents have no clue how many things they never teach their children. Their children are simply born with those things.