Quotes About Parenting

One resourceful mom took her son's fixation on the video game Minecraft and made real wood "Minecraft" blocks for her son and the neighborhood kids to play with. This provided a connection between building things in the virtual world and building structures in the real world.

If they were honest, many parents would confess that their primary reasons for not allowing their child to quit something is because of financial reasons, or personal reluctance to get involved, or both.

If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

En lo posible, es mejor tratar de perdonar a los transgresores y darles una segunda oportunidad, tal como lo hicieron tantas veces mis padres conmigo cuando era niño.

The child who knows his parents have sturdy end stops will not have to push and test to find the limits and boundaries.

If you have no control over your child at home, and yet she behaves very well at school and in other people's homes, take heart. This is a common situation, and one that is better than many other possibilities.

It doesn't matter what kinds of limits or consequences parents establish. All that matters is that parents back their words up with action and hold fast.

Nowhere is follow-through needed more than in your parenting.

A child who perpetually pesters her parents is still searching for the limits she needs to grow straight. Her demanding and disruptive behavior is, to a great degree, meant to test you, to find out what outrageous action will finally get you to react—constructively.

Commit to unspoiling your child, and your child will follow.

Give your child a consequence that is meaningful to him or her.

Being an unspoiling parent is a lot of work. But it is a small price to pay for an unspoiled child.

Tantrums should become less frequent as you proceed through unspoiling. However, they might become more intense for a short while.

Today's parents tend to be uncomfortable with their authority.

Practice telling your child your expectations and wishes in statements that declare rather than ask.

Children who get and get no matter what tend to appreciate less.

Stop treating your child as royalty whose every want must be met. Teach your child to turn demands into polite requests.

Model the gratitude you want your children to show.

For most parents, the true thank-yous come much later.

Allowing children open access to every aspect of parents' lives can make for children who simply cannot bear the idea of their parents having experiences, relationships, and more that exclude them.

Unspoiling will get easier and easier. You will get better at it and more comfortable with it. Your children will need to test it less and less.

Hardly last and supremely paramount, you deserve forgiveness, your own and the children's, for your inevitable moments of moodiness and impatience, for your mistakes and missteps, and for all that is part of the human condition that makes children and their behaviors forgivable.

Unspoiling is nothing more than the absence of spoiling.