Quotes About Parenting

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

It takes a village to raise a child.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

Your children get only one childhood.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.