Quotes About Parenting

Why was it that, when children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing? Commissario Guido Brunetti

You can't bank your experiences for your children.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

At some point you can no longer insist that your children do this or that. I had learned this lesson the hard way. You have to let them fall down and then you can help them get back up. But you have to let them become adults.

Even Momma, hard-hearted as she may have seemed, felt very badly for the boys.

If I have learned anything about raising children, it's that keeping the conversation going is so very important. Once you stop talking to each other terrible things can happen

Another maternal insight --- you always dislike about your children that which you dislike about yourself because you understand the danger about that trait. ~ Dorothea Benton Frank, The Hurricane Sisters, p. 115.

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

That night I experienced one of those sudden, unpleasant shifts of perception that occur to parents, when you notice a difference in your child that's been coming over a long time, and you're faced with it, and at the same time you're groping back to touch the child they were a minute ago, while a somehow unaccountable, unpredictable person is watching you, waiting for you to catch up with them, contemptuous because you haven't.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere . . . and let the air out of the tires.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.

for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

She had never thought she would let a daughter of hers go away like this. But what could she do? Children grew up; they pleased themselves; they grew in power to go their own ways as you diminished in power to prevent them.

At some point in the family history, parents begin to look to children for explanation, instead of children to parents.

Children make parents as wretched as parents make children; but children do not really believe that. They can't understand how it is that those whom they take for tyrants can be hurt by the victims of the tyranny.

How are we to teach our children to say "no" to an abusive adult if we are not frank about what it is that they should say "no" to? When we try to keep sex secret from our kids, they are aware that something is going on, but they don't know what. And if we leave them to get their sex information in the playground or on the street, from equally ill-informed other kids, we consign them to the jungle.

Love is not a real-world limit: the mother of nine children can love each of them as much as the mother of an only child.

Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.