Quotes About Parenting

My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us.

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

I try to teach my kids to be open.

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.

Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

I think it teaches you humility and love being a parent.

If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.