Parenting Quotes

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

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

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

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.