Quotes About Parenting

When my children do wrong I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.

Sometimes ... God answers our prayers in the way our parents do who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while."

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage -- everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town,Upstairs and downstairs, in his nichtgown,Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock,"Are the weans in their bed? for it's now ten o'clock."

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father's care.