Parenting Quotes

Daddy, are you going to yell at us some more today?'Neary gazed down into her clear, guileless eyes....

When is the impulse to help an adult child a wise intervention and when is it self-serving and pryin...

I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and ma...

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his ...

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachme...

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child be...

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accur...

To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain ...

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as...

I have one top-notch baby with whom I am in love. It's a head-over-heels "first love" kind of thing,...

Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of...

One day you’re going to get arrested, and when you do, don’t call me. I’ll tell the police to lock y...

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you...

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't ...

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and abov...

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothin...

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand...

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuat...

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers...

Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" an...

Good tennis players are those who beat other tennis players, and a good shot during play is one the ...

How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.

Historians have shown that "parents in the Middle Ages worried about their kids no less than we worr...

Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate intere...

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they reg...

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our cho...

My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Wh...

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defi...

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; an...

In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxie...

To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and ...

The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing aga...

There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.

I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to...

There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist u...

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from ...

It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. bei...

Don't count on me to take you in because I'm angry. I'm angry at you for leading us on such a song a...

Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees ...

They visited him in saris, clumping gracelessly through red mud and long grass ... and introduced th...

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is peri...

It is as hard for our children to believe that we are not omnipotent as it is for us to know it, as ...

Even if i'm setting myself up for failure, I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in ...

He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who tea...

Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids ...

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the mor...

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have...

In a culture which holds the two-parent patriarchal family in higher esteem than any other arrangeme...

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abus...

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...

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

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched sli...

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm...

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newb...

Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and soc...

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we percei...

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never intervie...

The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan t...

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do...

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do...

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we de...

Fear of the Dark I’ve always been prone to worry and anxiety, but after I became a mother, negotiati...

To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, th...

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We s...

The endorphin high of birth will fade, but its trace remains with you forever, its fingerprints inde...

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might...

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their prioriti...

You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I n...

Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a par...

I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such ...

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a fir...

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

My mother is European and expresses her love through food and cuddling. She wasn't the type of mothe...

She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came wit...