Parenting Quotes

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...

Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary.

A father is as much a verb as a mother.

Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be...

If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be un...

It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for the...

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just a...

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as...

Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me....

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue wh...

Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.

Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while t...

If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, proba...

I worry about exposing him to bands like Journey, the appreciation of which will surely bring him no...

Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car ...

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents do...

Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the ...

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. If love alone could cure ...

If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know y...

Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-le...

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylight...

I myself," said Gibbon, "am slightly underdone in the personal worthlessness line. It was Papa's fau...

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful...

Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time(adolescense...

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — ...

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white...

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog...

Girls mature faster than boys, cost more to raise, and statistics show that the old saw about girls ...

He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 1...

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of s...

But in her loneliness in the palace she learned to know him, they learned to know each other, and sh...

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, an...

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal...

My parents never projected their dreams onto me. If they hoped I would be a great pitcher, or politi...

Women's magazines sadly remark that children can have a disruptive effect on the conjugal relationsh...

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of...

If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be ...

A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a rea...

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. ...