Parenting Quotes

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

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.

To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

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

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

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.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage -- everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you.- Desmond Tutu In the end, kids won't remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this