Quotes About Parenting

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.

The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals.

In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

I've always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.

Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for your kids at a young age, so they will know, I better listen to Mommy.

I think I have a newfound respect for what my parents did, to create two players - one who was really good and another who was pretty good.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.