Parenting Quotes
1,523 quotes
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
"What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife."
"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."
"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves."
"Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?"
"If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked."
"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."
"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."
"Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God."
"A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?"
"When a person is punished for their honesty they begin to learn to lie."
"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
"Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making."
"In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children."
"Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected."
"Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment."
"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."
"Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most"of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?"
"Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be."
"I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley."
"Honor your relationships by developing listening skills."
"When you've had one call after another and your little one is tugging on your shirt, remember what really matters. When the milk is splattered all over the floor and those little eyes are looking at you for your reaction, remember what really matters. It takes 5 minutes to clean up spilled milk; it takes much longer to clean up a broken spirit."
"Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children."
"The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus."
"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."
"A mother who is really a mother is never free."
"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
"Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being."
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station."
"Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep."
"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
"The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet."
"Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy."
"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching."
"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going."
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."
"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."
"I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through."
"There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them."
"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
"To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt."
"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes."
Showing 50 of 1,523 quotes