Quotes About Parenting

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me.

When you look into your baby's eyes," Lacy said softly, "you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won't become.

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

My 22-year-old [son] can see everything I've done, but my 15-year-old hasn't been able to see anything, at all. But yeah, I hope I'm a super cool dad.

I hope my children just grow up happy and pursue their dreams. I mean, that's all I can ask of them.

Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Where are all the sour patch parents?