Quotes About Parenting

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

Mothers are hormonally wired to respond to, not ignore, their baby's cries. (Fathers, take note: You can't argue with biology!)

Maybe in a few generations, we'll see studies that indicate that babies who sleep with their parents have fewer ear infections, do better in school, and don't engage in pseudo-science when they grow up.

The parents who are most frustrated by high-need babies have difficulty unloading the baggage of a control mind-set. "High-need baby" says it all. It's

There is no such person as a perfect parent, and certainly this book was not written by perfect parents. Do the best you can with the resources you have. That's all your child will ever expect.

You can't wait until your son is old enough to throw a football to become an involved father. If you want him to enjoy playing catch with you when he's ten, you have to start enjoying him when he's a baby. (The same goes for girls, including the part where they'll need a baseball glove.)

Breastfeeding helps you unwind from a busy day's work and reconnect with your baby, especially after a tense day.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Hamlet: For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion,—Have you a daughter?Polonius: I have, my lord.Hamlet: Let her not walk i' the sun.

A grievous burden was thy birth to me;Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy.

One fair daughter and no more,The which he loved passing well.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

Nemo suggested that it might be some monster giant but his papa called him a "rattlebrain" and ordered him to pacify his mama who was making elaborate plans to faint.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

We ought to give good examples to our children, because if they see no uncomeliness, they shall be forced to follow goodness and virtue.

Mentre scrivo queste righe a Sydney, una splendida coppia di pappagalli verdi con il petto arancione è accovacciata sul tetto dell'edificio accanto e sta nutrendo il proprio cucciolo. Se gli uccelli possono provare un simile sentimento e non abbandonare mai le loro creature, com'è possibile che degli esseri umani rinuncino ripetutamente ai loro figli?

Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?

Are you just going to stand there frying hamburgers while your child could be dying in a fire?

Someone once wrote that worrying is the hardest thing about being a parent.

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Shorten is one of that interesting pack of politicians born of determined mothers and largely absent fathers. There are so many: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are distinguished alumni. Among recent Labor leaders in Australia are Rudd, Albanese and Shorten. Among the qualities these men share are self-discipline, boundless ambition and an appetite for approval on a national scale.

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.