Parenting Quotes

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. ...

The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions ...

It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must...

What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at ...

We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class ch...

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we ...

Most of you will marry and have children. They will become the source of your greatest pride and hap...

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The ...

The Children's HourBetween the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pa...

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son...

The only power that can effect transformations of the order (of Jesus) is love. It remained for the ...

History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to m...

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that edu...

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; ...

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should b...

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too muc...

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re ...

I used to wonder why I had hair on my legs, but now I know it's for my toddler sons and daughters to...

I feel guilty when I feed them unhealthy food they like. I feel guilty when I feed them healthy food...

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings...

When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard.

Occasionally, a dog will be presented as some training method for having a baby. "My girlfriend and ...

Bedtime makes you realize how completely incapable you are of being in charge of another human being...

TV news is like kryptonite to children. The two major shifts in taste for children to adulthood are ...

I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the ma...

I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty abou...

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I shou...

The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following:1. After your ...

We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute ...

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as ...

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished...

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying ...

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can n...

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

But kids don't stay where they're supposed to. You turn around and find her not in the bedroom but h...

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them....

Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on ...

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. ...

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scari...

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the w...

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was...

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scari...

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the w...

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was...

Ah, cruel parents indeed, who neglect the religious education of their children; more cruel in some ...

Fond mother, you that will never correct a child, hear the charge, and let it thrill through your he...

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the oth...

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being...

I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read...

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they s...

You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him f...

If you want your children to grow up to be healthy and independent, you should hold them, hug them, ...

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow ...

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resou...

...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys w...

Everything depends on upbringing.

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnatio...

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my e...

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works a...

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving gr...

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civili...

I didn’t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning ev...

While I pressed the tissue to my face, Beck said, “Can I tell you something? There are a lot of empt...

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy t...

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all y...

I've tried to teach what I learned all those years in my mother and father's house, all those things...

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation o...

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation o...

That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are bo...