Quotes About Parenting

Children are like poems. They're beautiful -- to their creators -- but to others they're just silly and fucking annoying.

Have you ever tried taking a phone away from a teen, especially for an extended period?

Why? For lack of anything else to do with their time. Because they were impulsive and not bright enough to even understand the importance of birth control. And because the more kids they had, the bigger the welfare checks and food stamp handouts they received.

But the strangest of all sensations is the moment after you have been freed of the baby--and the baby of you--and you are handed this tiny shriveled creature to hold for the first time... and you feel a mixture of unbelievable instant love and desperate fear.

But can you ever excise a bad parent? Though you might come to terms with all that they have psychologically bequeathed you, they can never really be expunged. They're the stubborn, permanent stain that will never entirely vanish in the wash.

Any parent may notice the differences between their sons and daughters, but the culture tells them that there are none or that those that are there are purely 'performative' issues.

What if – Sarah asked her daughter – after choosing to transition she then felt the need to de-transition? What if having made this change she decided she didn't want it? Her daughter's response was, 'So. I'll kill myself.' While no parent should ever take such a threat lightly there does seem to be a pattern to it, as Germaine Greer had claimed much earlier.

Parents worry when they hear the San Francisco-based developmental psychologist Diane Ehrensaft claim that a one-year-old 'assigned male' baby who unsnaps a onesie and waves it in a particular way is in fact giving a 'pre-verbal communication about gender'.

parents do not rejoice in a nine-year-old drag queen being given a modelling contract with an LGBT fashion company and telling other children in a viral YouTube video, 'If you wanna be a drag queen and your parents don't let you, you need new parents.'45

As we bring up our children, we should descend to their level in one sense (humility) in order to lead them to our level (maturity).

Jesus literally sang as He was preparing to go to the cross. So, the sacrifices that you will make for your children should be something you can sing over. If there is not a song in it, it is not a biblical sacrifice.

God requires His people to bring up their covenant children in an environment dominated by the Word of God.

If you do not discipline your children effectively, you hate them.

Imitation is absolutely crucial for childrearing. You do not want your children imitating you unless you are imitating God.

Discipline by principle means that your system of discipline makes sense. It is orderly. It is not a chaos of commandments that depend upon the emotional state of Mom or Dad at the time the directives are delivered.

When the parent is qualified to discipline, he probably does not feel like it, and when he feels like it, he is probably not qualified.

Insecurity can also develop from a critical parent who focused on our weaknesses or failures or didn't feel we measured up to some unspoken standard.

Among the most sacred gifts you can give your child is the gift of health. This gift is best given by example." Dr. Rand Olson

Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.

Never leave a child to their own devices. Unless it's a piano.

Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.

Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books.

Nigga peep the shit Im wildin on. I be wit yo baby mama, you be wit yo child at home.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.