Parenting Quotes

Leadership is like parenting.

My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true — a hundred times over — of love.

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.