Quotes About Parenting

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

Va, mon enfant, dit le vieux Dantès, et que Dieu te bénisse dans ta femme comme il m'a béni dans mon fils.

The name of father is sacred in two senses; he should be reverenced as the author of our being and as a master whom we ought to obey.

ah, you are playing with me, like those good, or rather selfish mothers who soothe their children with honeyed words, because their screams annoy them.

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

Children don't just need to be loved; they need to know that nothing they do will change the fact that they're loved.

Few parents have the courage and independence to care more for their children's happiness than for their success.

I realized that this is what many people in our society seem to want most from children: not that they are caring or creative or curious, but simply that they are well behaved.

Similarly, parents who want to teach the importance of honesty make it a practice never to lie to their children, even when it would be easier just to claim that there are no cookies left rather than to explain why they can't have another one.

The dominant problem with parenting in our society isn't permissiveness, but the fear of permissiveness. We're so worried about spoiling kids that we often end up over controlling them.

Think of your goal as giving your child a kind of inoculation, providing him with the unconditional love, respect, trust, and sense of perspective that will serve to immunize him against the most destructive effects of an overcontrolling environment or an unreasonable authority figure.

Weren't you ever booed at by your mother?!

Sally hears something dangerous in her daughter's voice, but of course thirteen is a dangerous age. It's the time when a girl can snap, when good can turn to bad for no apparent reason, and you can lose your own child if you're not careful.