Quotes about parenting

That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience being ignored by rebellious child.

It is through the institution of families that children are brought up in an orderly manner and that the knowledge of God and of His laws is handed down from generation to generation.

Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting Focus on the uniqueness of every Child.

Wonder isn't about finding answers it's about becoming more comfortable with questions.

Independence isn't doing your own thing it's doing the right thing on your own.

Parenting has no guide book we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm.

Parents need to be lucky to be good in parenting children have to be lucky to have great parents!

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

But no one is easier to delude than a parent they see only what they wish to see.

Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.

As parents we have a tendency to overprotect it's okay to try and show them all positives but we cannot forget that the real world has teeth

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children and here was one who was worshipping a stone!

The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately they talk to the heart.

Successful teaching is not head-to-head it is heart-to-heart.

Adopted. Big Deal so was Superman

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you they were born for a different time.


There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give it's something they have to build.

I know that the theory of evolution is true Pigs evolved into politicians

Fix was starting to see that this was the way life worked once you got older and the kids came there wasn't as much time as you thought there was going to be.

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

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

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

Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.

People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.

Adoption is grief in reverse.

Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

There's a world of difference between, "Look at this mess you made!" and "I don't like to see food on the floor!

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

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

She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came with having too much food: a sated belly gave Americans time to worry that their child might have a rare disease that they had just read about, made them think they had the right to protect their child from disappointment and want and failure. A sated belly gave Americans the luxury of praising themselves for being good parents, as if caring for one's child was the exception rather than the rule.

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them and onto YOU.

Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always are, because parenting is hard. Inadequate parents could say, 'Go outside and play in the culture,' and the culture -- relatively innocent, and boring -- could be more or less trusted to bring the kids up. Grown ups now know that you can't send the kids out to play in the culture, because the culture will leave them distorted and disturbed.

Being a parent is one of the best, stressful, guilty, rewarding, sad, happy, frustrating, cherished, disgusting, fun, ridiculous, time consuming, joyful, maddening, worrisome, hectic, magical, nostalgic, second guessing, warm, cuddly, thing one can spend the rest of their life doing. I wouldn't have it any other way!

The point is that we can't behave right when we don't feel right. And kids can't behave right when they don't feel right. If we don't take care of their feelings first, we have little chance of engaging their cooperation. All we'll have left going for us is our ability to use greater force. And since we'd like to reserve brute force for emergencies such as yanking children out of traffic, we've got to face this feelings thing head-on.

The controlled freak-out is a beautiful thing. (Ephesians 4:26)

We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make

You truly do have the power to reach your goals.

You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?

To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you’re trying to accomplish.

If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.

When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.

The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you’ll feel.

No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important.

It’s up to you to make your dreams real.

Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life—now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?

The biggest regrets people have aren’t about what they did, but what they didn’t do.

. . . parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond.

To enjoy true, vibrant health, increased awareness, effort, and focus are required.

Medication, surgery, and medical tests are all focused on disease, not on health. Prevention is the act of moving away from the disease. Proactivity in health is seeking a high level of wellness and acting in a way that will create that reality in your life.

What we sometimes see as annoying, incessant questions from a child may be a plea for recognition. Maybe they do not need an answer as much as attention.

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

If you’ve raced home after working ten-hour days to get dinner on the table every night for twenty years…you deserve more than absolution from guilt and the kindness you’d give freely to anyone else. You deserve a gold medal.

The is no better example for our children,then the one we set before them every day

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...

It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.

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

I have learned to accept the fact that I will make mistakes at nearly every turn, but that those mistakes can be softened if I am honest about who I am to my girls.

Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.

It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.

Taking time to create memories will stamp moments that will forever be etched on your heart and on the hearts of your children.

I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink… how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong of your tiny breaths as you fell asleep . . .

Indra believed that the birth of each of her sons had been accompanied by a sign... With Sarva, overnight her cascading black hair showed a thick clutch of grey. He was the child she would struggle most with.

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

Pure, unadulterated, consistent love for God and pure, unadulterated, consistent love for others is the summation of all the law God has given us in both the Old and New Testaments. Of course, the problem is that we never obey these simple commands. We always love ourselves more than we love God or others. We are always erecting idols in our hearts and worshipping and serving them. We are always more focused on what we want and how we might get it than we are on loving Him and laying down our li

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.

Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won’t embarrass us. We’re working toward something much more important than that. We’re actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether they'll be okay. And the idea that I'll be worried forever about them and what they do...I almost have a panic attack when I think about it. I'm worried, and I'm worried about having to worry so goddamn much.

The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.

I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree....Those of us less inclined to compliment ourselves on our parenting skills, in other words most of us, recite rosaries of our failures, our neglects, our derelictions and delinquencies.

In thousands of little ways, we pull and push our children to grow up, hurrying them along instead of inviting them to rest. We could never court each other as adults by resisting dependance...Perhaps we feel free to invite the dependance of adults becuase we are not responsible for their growth and maturity. We don't bear the burden of getting them to be independant. Here is the core of the problem: we are assuming too much responsiblity for the maturation of our children. We have forgotten tha

Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time(adolescense) is, insisting on the same unreasoning obedience as when all he had to do in the way of duty was, to obey the simple laws of "Come when you're called," and "Do as you're bid!" But a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will.

The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.

When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you. That very sad thing for her. Maybe she come looking, and she not find you. You not there when she come. She think you dead for ever. But she see you in her mind. Now as I speak maybe she see you in her mind. You always there. I know. I have son too. I have Michiya. He always in my head. Like Kimi. They dead for sure, but they in my head. They in my head forever.

Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.

Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom!

Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You'll see. That's the way it was for Bill and me. It's one of the many gifts of parenting.

What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand.

A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I lecture my kids I'm doing much the same thing. I'm not trying to necessarily reason with them, just hold them still for a short while.

Science and discovery, especially in the field of non-abnormal pediatric mysteries, is built on the work of those who have been sneezed on before us. Causation and rationale may someday be reached, but until then it is the heartwarming and parental nature of the journey that drives us on; well, that and a fresh box of Kleenex.

As a young father it's important to remember that, when you're at the beach, there's a BIG difference between telling your five year old son to just go pee in the ocean and telling him to get in the water at least waist deep and then pee in the ocean.

A challenging career suddenly seemed more productive to me because I could measure the results of my work. These precious little ones had endless needs. They were busy little sinful creatures who demanded all of my body, time, life, emotions, and attention! As much as I loved my children, I often felt like a failure. Surely someone else could do a better job with these precious ones than I. And what exactly was I supposed to be accomplishing anyway? Was I wasting my time? What had this husband,

When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like "to feel comfortable in their own skin" and "to find their path in the world." They want their kids to develop their own tastes and opinions. In fact, French parents worry if their kids are too docile. They want them to have chara

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

I had been running as fast as I could for all of my adult life. A person can’t listen effectively while running. A running mother is not able to pick up clues. She is not able to let go of her own agenda long enough to stop and listen.

It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince

Surely, our greatest parental hope is that our children attain a state of righteousness. It is the only sure road to happiness. But to attain such a state requires that they be decent as well as compliant. I know many, many young people who are not "righteous" in the usual sense. But they are wonderfully decent people with many praiseworthy qualities. They are not "devout" in the sense that they attend church faithfully, dress or groom themselves traditionally, or publicly declare their devotion

A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for your child.

Encourage obeying "all the way, right away, and in a happy way.