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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.

It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

~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.~

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

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

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

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

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

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

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.