Parenting Quotes

One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty ye...

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More ...

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the childre...

Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they ...

I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach hims...

A father is a man who fails every day.

[My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hai...

There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perf...

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because...

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is...

You are almost never cool to your children.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, ...

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teac...

The lessons my parents taught are still with me. I keep a tighter leash when raising my kids than my...

Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those t...

Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher e...

I remember thinking that no one had ever told me how much I would love my child; now, of course, I r...

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents...

the balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and thei...

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature...

The love, loyalty, and dedication of Mary and Joseph are an example for all Christian couples, who a...

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let t...

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a l...

It’s not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you’ve given birth...

A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of an...

The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be...

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bus...

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wi...

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they e...

Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for e...

We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we'v...

All those adorable towheaded kids in the promotional film are going to turn thirteen. Once a family ...

Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistf...

I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the wor...

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority fi...

I gave you life. You’re wasting it.

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...