Quotes About Parenting

The greatest gift you can give to your children is the gift of your time. And one of the greatest gifts you will ever give yourself is that of enjoying your kids and seeing them for what they truly are: the small miracles of life.

Las escuelas solo son un complemento de la enseñanza de los padres. En

debes asumir la responsabilidad del desarrollo moral de tus hijos. No esperes a que la escuela se haga cargo de todo. No

Dex's mother knew she should be afraid for her daughter. This, she'd been told, was the tragedy of being a girl. To live in fear–it was the fate of any parent, maybe, but the special provenance of a mother to a daughter, one woman raising another, knowing too well what could happen. This was what lurked inside the luckiest delivery rooms, the ones whose balloons screamed It's a girl!: pink cigars and flowered onesies and fear.

He'd wanted to get her baptized before she could take off and lose herself in some rough life and then be lost in whatever came after it.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

It seems to me, therefore, that you should prepare your children to be happy in the way that you are happy. Treat them exactly as you would if your own ideals were generally shared. After all, your ideals, like your children, define you: between them, they are all that you have.

My children, I cannot say that I am entirely pleased with you, but I suppose this works both ways. Let it be. I leave you with my blessing, which is more than a formality.

But that was always the case – people hardly ever saw their children as they really were.

As his life steadily unraveled, he pawned his gold watch and chain for $20 on December 23, 1857, to purchase Christmas presents for his children—perhaps the symbolic nadir of his life.

It never seemed to dawn on her to encourage her children to have a good time.

My greatest fortune in life has been my son.

Senior must have feared that the stupendous weight of the fortune would crush his delicate son.

Aware of the rich children spoiled by their parents, Senior seized every opportunity to teach his son the value of money.

It was on a meteorologically challenged November night that Frankenstein infused the spark of being into the creature and saw its dull yellow eye open. Breathless horror filled Frankenstein's heart as a vision of the next twenty years flashed through his mind. There would be responsibilities--schooling, education, clothing--and he was a lone parent!

I wish my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me;

Shotguns and children don't mix.

Oh, if our children actually knew how much we love them, they'd never be able to hit any of these balls, they'd be simply immobilized by the force of it, by the awful force of our love.

Vamos trazer nossos filhos tão próximo do céu quanto pudermos... Está em nosso poder restringi-los e reformá-los, e isso devemos fazer".

I did not find one that depicts a parent as consistently reliable and trustworthy.

As a society and as parents we face a challenge without precedent. We have to help girls and boys make a transition to a gendered adulthood, to adult life as women and men in a culture in which women can do anything, including being rocket scientists, and men can do anything, including staying home to raise a baby. We have to find ways to value and cherish gender differences without restricting freedom of opportunity.

Gender is important, gender is complicated and gender is meaningful. Know your child and celebrate the kind of girl or boy your child is becoming.

son muchos los padres que dan por sentado que las buenas notas y las calificaciones elevadas son la mejor garantía y la clave para la felicidad futura. Pero se equivocan. Si quieres que tu hijo esté sano, sea rico y sea sabio, entonces tu prioridad no deberían ser los resultados relacionados con lo cognitivo, como las notas, sino la medida de su diligencia, con rasgos como la honestidad, la integridad y el autocontrol.

We never replace Jesus in our children's lives. We don't even do the work of Jesus in our children's lives. We do the work of parents, which is to point our children to Jesus. And then Jesus does his own work--with or without us.