Quotes About Parenting

Ironically, pretending that parenting is easy diminishes the value of family. As truth seekers and truth speakers, we need to be honest about the cost of parenting.

The gospel we teach most effectively is the one that we embody and walk out before our children, not the gospel that trips easily off our tongue. Our children learn less from the rules we outline or the programs we follow than from the lives we live before them.

allows "for the possibility that 'they know not what they do.' "8 How many of our parents intended the harm they caused? How many acted in ignorance and are ignorant still? How many are stuck in their

I don't know if watching Chaz Bono will turn your kids into transsexuals, but I'm pretty sure that letting them watch Keith Ablow will turn them into assholes

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

We're never prepared for how much we love our children, for how much we wish we could protect them by being perfect.

Every month I watched my father scrape to pay his bills, sending Mother a monthly child-support check from which neither Joy nor I ever saw a dime.

than she was, but for the next three days—or was it four?—the kids' meals would be her responsibility. "Let's go out for pizza!" Matt suggested exuberantly. He was standing on the raised hearth of the double fireplace that served both the kitchen and dining room, and Sharon

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. —MARGARET MEAD

How many parents have lost the hearts of their children because they forgot why they had them? It was never to control them but to provide an environment in which they would flourish. How many couples have lost their marriages because they forgot why they were together? They fight against each other rather than for their love. Do we grasp and wrestle with others for their roles because we lose sight of our own?

A parent's approval always mattered, regardless of age—

My wife and I are raising a small child while juggling two careers. This isn't the honeymoon phase. This is work.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.