Quotes About Parenting

I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.

Not just for tissue-holding folks, the empty nest syndrome is so pervasive, it can take over the most headstrong of parents.

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

There is a systemic problem in this country, where schools are often forcing parents to turn to Ritalin.

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

Eric Forman: Good morning! What's for breakfast? Red Forman: Good morning? It's 1:30 in the afternoon! Where have you been? Eric Forman: Well, I've spent all morning in bed. Reading. I thought 'Why get out of bed when you can read about people who did?' Red Forman: You're about to read a book that my foot wrote. It's called on the road to in your ass.

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

God is at work telling a story of restoration and redemption through your family. Never buy into the myth that you need to become the " right" kind of parent before God can use you in your children's lives. Instead learn to cooperate with whatever God desires to do in your heart today so your children will have a front-row seat to the grace and goodness of God.

Church has believed that parents probably wont' assume responsibility for their own children's growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This in turn ha s fostered parents to adopt a "drop-off" mentality. Maybe the greatest gift a church can give parents is the confidence and courage to do what God has wired them to do.

every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children or what i do for my children is not as important as what i leave in them.

No one has more potential to influence your child than you.

Sometimes, we forget the essence of parenting is really about nurturing critical connections that affect every child's future.

Most parents can't give their children a lavish inheritance, but every parent will leave a personal legacy.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

I suppose parents try to teach their children what they need to survive in their own environment.

I always pack too much whenever I travel," a lady said quite loudly as the windows fogged. "We're moving from New York. My son has been mugged six times. He's just eleven. We can't keep buying him new watches." She went on like that.

He was good at getting her sister pregnant. That dude had super sperm that made him a gold medalist in making babies. Her sister had five children, more than halfway to having the starting lineup for a baseball team.

Hand-wringing parents don't want their precious offspring looking at wieners and hoo-hahs when they're supposed to be amassing student debt, so they demand that the Termite Mound fix the problem by Doing Something.