Quotes About Parenting

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey."

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.

Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels."

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

parents like to see themselves more as equals, with a bit more knowledge and experience, whose role is really to validate their children's feelings and make sure they are continually entertained and occupied. They are more like older friends. This same leveling dynamic applies to teachers and students, where learning must be fun.

It was like having a child forever at your heels - a persistent, intelligent, embarrassing, deceitful, dangerous child

No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand

You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings.

She was also heard to tell him on several occasions, "I wish you were dead." These abuses, quite obviously, had an impact on the young boy. At age four

Dad? What? A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. What should I be when I grow up? The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. Honest, I finally say.

Dad?" "What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. "What should I be when I grow up?" The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest," I finally say.

Obviously, oxytocin and vasopressin are the grooviest hormones in the universe. Pour them into the water supply, and people will be more charitable, trusting, and empathic. We'd be better parents and would make love, not war (mostly platonic love, though, since people in relationships would give wide berths to everyone else). Best of all, we'd buy all sorts of useless crap, trusting the promotional banners in stores once oxytocin starts spraying out of the ventilation system.

I once received a lesson in kids' private world of rule making from my then-four-year-old son. We had gone to a public bathroom together; we stood side by side at two urinals, and I finished a bit earlier than he did. "I wish we had finished at the same time," he said. Why? "We get more points that way.