Parenting Quotes

What makes you think children like childish things? Don't tell them how to be children. They want to grow up.

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

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.

Don’t have kids until you’re ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren’t like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.

Don’t spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren’t stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff.

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

Children make your lives a mess and set your priorities straight.

As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.

Life begins at the day of birth. Birthday is a great day of honour.

Tender Ember...Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above...

Her conclusion: "You just have to follow your own heart" when it comes to medical decision-making.

When you treat a person right in the present they turn out better in the future.

For parents, the days are long but the years are short.

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.

Sure, I'd like a child of my own. I'd also like a laser pistol, that doesn't mean someone should give me one.

Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How — how?—can I make it always so?

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

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.

Whatever I haven’t accomplished biologically obviously wasn't all that imperative.

Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.

It’s never too early to begin pointing your little ones’ souls heavenward.

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

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns.

Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t oke enough holes to drain it dry.

Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.

You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

Children are God's way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.

I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline.

Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.

No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a while, they would learn from their kids what life is truly about.

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

Motherhood:The most exhausting, emotional, rewardingand life-enhancing journey a woman can take.