Parenting Quotes

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace, as anyone who has worked in my chambers can attest.

As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

I don't want my kids to be like me. I want them to be better than me.

Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don't spank your child show them some attention.

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

I needed something else, some kind of juice.He gave me a hooked-eyebrow glance and took a showy swig of the water. Mmm, he said, smacking his lips. Water-juice. It's fantastic.

If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive.

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

If you're not parenting on purpose, don't be surprised when you get chaos from the children.

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any.

Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly.

I won't do that when I'm a parent. I'll make different mistakes, of course.

I realize parenting is hard and boring at times and a four-hour break would be super, but this is the job we signed up for. Some days it sucks, but most days it's great.

Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.

Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity.

Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.

We can easily teach our kids hot to be kind, compassionate and respectful when we are kind, compassionate and respectful to them.

Never discipline whom you've not discipled.

There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.

A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent.

It's easy to love kids who make you feel competent.

Pulling at the hem of my emotion was the creeping sense that it might well take until 2036 for this child in my arms to feel a fraction of what I already felt for her.

[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.

It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever.

I went because the nights are numbered and I do not know the count.

I am not in the entertainment business. I don't give a damn if it was spectacular or not. I want cause and effect.

People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie. ~ Mrigank Kashyap

You cannot stop loving your child because you know that he has committed a wrong action. But you certainly stop loving yourself for loving him. ~ Rudransh Kashyap

Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That, and the concept of "Me time".

As women, we'd be exponentially lighter if we'd sort through some of our emotional clutter... We need to dispose of the crud that we no longer need. Excerpt from essay #3 "What's in my Purse?

I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.

Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides.

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

We may not have had the same experiences as other parents, but I’m okay with that now.

At least grandmas don't look for angles like other people. Jo

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.

It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.

You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.

It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.

The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job