Best 1680 quotes in «parenting quotes» category

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

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

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

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

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Parenting @ a higher level of consciousness:1st love self so deeply that when ur child misbehaves U do not have 2 react @LoveNever_Fails When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future!

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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

Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

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

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

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

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we are responsible to anybody but our kids and ourselves.~

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".

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.

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

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

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.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

When talking w/kids its not what we say but how we say it! Think about your tone of voice & non-verbal communication. When talking to my kids I can get them to listen better by not talking down to them, but talking to them at eyeball level