Parenting Quotes

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.

Little girls love dolls. They just don't love dolls clothes

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their appreciation of their obligation to others.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.