Quotes About Parenting

Kindness and firmness show respect for your child's dignity, your own dignity, and the needs of the situation.

wonder if you can brush your teeth and get into your pajamas before Dad does.

Do your best to be empathetic when your child cries (or has a temper tantrum). He may just be frustrated with his lack of abilities.

When children are young, they love to imitate parents, grandparents, and other caregivers. Your toddler will want to push the vacuum cleaner, squirt the bottle of bathroom cleaner, and cook breakfast (with lots of supervision). As your little one grows more capable, you can use these everyday moments of life together to teach her how to become a competent, confident person

This may mean redirecting your child or showing her what she can do instead of punishing her for what she can't do. It also might mean wordlessly removing a child from the slide when she refuses to leave, rather than getting into an argument or a battle of wills.

harsh criticism, punishment, or shaming may also damage a child's brain and ability to trust you.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

The question shouldn't be Am I happy? but rather, Does my life have meaning? And yes, my life has meaning. I've created two children, and loving them, caring for them, and helping prepare them for life gives my life purpose.

He's gorgeous because he's mine, but he won't be mine for long. Our children become part of the world so fast, and it's our job to prepare them, transition them, our job to love them and gracefully step back and let them go….

Ron Paul, who, as someone said, wouldn't have regulated a sewer pipe running through his child's playroom.

Blame the mother," Mac interjected. "Children are what they've been taught." "I

Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and burned down a funeral home. Maybe that's some kind of record.

It was like having your teenager sell a spin in your Ferrari for a dollar. The more rides he sells, the more money he makes, until he wrecks your Ferrari.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

CÂND AR TREBUI S? ÎNCEAP? UN COPIL s? mearg? ?i s? vorbeasc?? Atunci când începe s? mearg? ?i s? vorbeasc?. ?i când ar trebui s?-i ias? din?ii? Exact atunci atunci când încep s?-i ias?. Iar fontanela, de asemenea, ar trebui s? se osifice exact atunci când se osific?. Iar sugarul ar trebui s? doarm? atâtea ore pe zi, câte îi trebuie s? se simt? odihnit.

of us want to acknowledge," he wrote. His conclusion? "[T]o all the friends—most but not all of them white—whom I've chastised over the years for abandoning the District once their children reached school age: I'm sorry. You were right. I was wrong."20

Virtually all observers agree that it is a terrible disadvantage for a child to come into the world without a father. Fatherless children are much more likely than those from two-parent homes to be poor, fail in school, commit crime, and, in turn, have fatherless children.

An unwillingness to associate with blacks has long been considered a sign of lower-class closed-mindedness, but a 2006 study by Michael Emerson and David Sikkink of Rice University found that the more education white parents had, the more likely they were to rule out schools for their children simply because of the number of blacks.

Endless talk about enriched curricula, Head Start, empowerment, Afrocentrism, victimization, special education, dysfunctionality, self-esteem, social justice, role models, etc., fails to recognize the most important fact of all: All too often, the children of indigent, unmarried fifteen-year-olds start life with problems we cannot fix. Government programs cannot take the place of loving, responsible parents.

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.

Of women who choose not to have children, most are undermothered and fear they won't know how. Sometimes they fear they will "mess up" their kids like they feel they have been messed up. (Although let's not forget that there are other important reasons someone may choose not to become a parent.)