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Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on the basis of qualities we find attractive. But we do not choose our children. Their qualities are unpredictable, and even the most conscientious parents cannot be held wholly responsible for the kind of child they have. That is why parenthood, more than other human relationships, teaches what the theologian William F. May calls an “openness to the unbidden.

Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.

Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.

Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your greatest glory and reminding you where you came from and demonstrating that you still have some of it between your toes.

Parents just don't understand.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.

Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature; wholesome books; selective movies; classical and exemplary popular music; entertainment that uplifts and edifies the spirit and mind.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.

Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative with parents who confidently assert the reasons for their demands and enforce reasonable rules. Even if there are a few rough spots, relationships between parents and young children run more smoothly when the parent, rather than the child, is in control.

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in the adolescent's or young adult's life, when a certain response is needed, and this need is not met, and the failure to meet this need is forever remembered, and is never forgiven.

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as much as it is about our children's growing and that kind of growing happens little by little.

Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

Parents, first and foremost, it is important to... understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It's important also to ensure that your child likes what he or she is doing. I believe in exposing children to as many hobbies and extracurricular activities as possible.

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with.

Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to build connection understanding that this foundation is the bedrock of all later self-worth, self-esteem and self-actualization.

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

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.

Parents are already telling their kids about falling in love online - there's nothing "frightening" or "dystopian" about this. So, the critique doesn't work, because we already consider our dystopic state of affairs normal.

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored your strengths or may not have encouraged you to develop them. You can discover your basic capacities by experimenting with things that you always wanted to do. Don't be discouraged by notions that seem "silly" or "foolish" or "not you." Do it! Who knows what will happen?

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.