Parenting Quotes

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Presence is more than just being there.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

Everything depends on upbringing.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No...Unfortunately, many, if not most, of today's children suffer from Vitamin N deficiency. They've been overindulged by well-meaning parents who've given them far too much of what they want and far too little of what they truly need.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

I gave you life. You’re wasting it.