Quotes About Parenting

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Wise parents take simple actions early on so they can avoid having to take very painful ones later.

Every time we replace anger with empathy and caring, we help a child become better prepared to make wise decisions.

When we do discipline without showing frustration, the odds for success increase in a very big way.

These parents are making daily deposits into Sammy's wisdom account that are going to help Sammy—when he's a teenager and throughout his life.

Kids seem most secure around parents who are strong, who don't allow the limits they place on their kids to crumble. Children lose respect for adults who cannot set limits and make them stick. Kids who misbehave without having to face the consequences become brats.

The boundaries we set for our children are in reality the boundaries we set for ourselves. The more squishy and indecisive we are about our own boundaries, the more soggy and inconsistent we are about the limits we set for our toddlers.

The thing to remember about dealing with our kids' fights is to butt out of them. Expect them to handle their squabbles themselves. This may be the toughest parenting principle to follow because kids desperately want our intervention. In fact, our intervention makes it safe for them to fight. They know we'll step in before anyone gets hurt

Trying to reason with kids who are emotionally upset is a waste of good air.

Kids have minds of their own. They want to exert their independence and do their own thinking. They blow off the things that are forced onto them and embrace the things they want to believe. If we want to pass our values down to them, we must present those values in a way our kids can accept: in our actions and words. Kids' values come from what they see and hear. They don't accept what we try to drive into their heads through lecturing.

No wonder Nolan whines like a pro: He has a good teacher. The fact is, parents who spend a lot of time pleading with their children develop kids who are experts at pleading

we surrender and grudgingly fork over the cookie. The message the child gets is that whining works.

show excitement about how things work, do things with your children, and become excited about what they and you discover, and you will probably raise self-motivated, curious, and creative children.

Kids with parents who are less concerned about their flunking and more concerned about giving their kids an opportunity to think about flunking develop kids who think and rarely flunk. Their parents aren't going to worry about it, so they'd better.

Limits can be set much more effectively when we're not fighting with our kids.

Telling our kids what to do—"You get to work on that lawn right now." Telling our kids what we will not allow—"You're not going to talk to me that way!" Telling our kids what we won't do for them—"I'm not letting you out of this house until you clean the living room.

The key to effective discipline is to control only what we can control. We can never make an infant stop crying, quit bothering us, stop sucking his or her thumb, or cut the whining. What we can and should control, though, is where he or she does all these things.

remember, we are not sending them there to punish them; we are merely giving them the opportunity to pull themselves together.

many parents don't do a good job of helping their kids distinguish between a want and a need. Young children don't naturally place limits on themselves; that is the parents' job.

As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.

I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.

I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.