Quotes About Parenting

Mom had gone into the studio, leaving Dad on "watch our child for signs of an imminent breakdown" duty, sitting at the table, sipping his coffee.

Rick, what--?" She laughed, then I saw Dad's grin as he slid into the driver's seat. "Payback for this morning," he said. "You embarrass me; I embarrass you." "Oh, that's mature," I said. "Keeps me young.

Who'd have thought my son would've inherited all my good taste without a lick of sense to go with it? ~Josiah

The thing about teaching and having children is that you always ended up treating your children like undergraduates, and your undergraduates like children.

Ma and Pa had taught their sons to keep themselves fresh by bathing at least once a year.

A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.

I don't think it really matters whether parents are strict or lenient, as long as they're consistent. Kids can live with more or less any set of rules so long as they know what they are. It's arbitrary tyranny that gets them mixed up.

She was proud to have a son who could ask such a thoughtful and challenging question.

But he had no wish to win an argument with his son. He just wanted the boy to know the truth.

Then he told himself to be calm: this took place a thousand times a day all over the world. He did not need to understand it. The baby would come without his help.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But more power to 'em, I say.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be.

One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.

We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!