Parenting Quotes

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...

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...