Quotes About Parenting

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.

I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

Every parent is a teacher... But not all parents teach.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

If I can't trust my child with what is happening in our home how do I think he or she will ever experience trust?

It's a sheer-madness for a father not to see his son greater than him

It isn't my teaching credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It is my God who qualifies me.

It's not my credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It's my God who made me qualified when I became a mom.

By fulfilling our divinely appointed jobs as parents, we can be God's tools that define and refine our children as they are sculpted into the individuals that He wants them to be.

Prouder than a preschooler showin' refrigerator art!

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.

our fourth child, decided to draw pictures for me in 1 Peter, in red ink. Her scribbles are there today, and I love every blot!

Everything Bill did, he did to the max, said Edmark. What he did always went well, well beyond everyone else. Gifted children - those with IQs near or above the genius level- sometimes grow up to be socially inept, due to limited childhood interactions and experiences. Bill and Mary Gates were determined to see that that didn't happen to their son.