Quotes About Parenting

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.

I believe all children are - are blessings from God. And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

I'm a conscious parent when I believe... a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth.

As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.

I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.

My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

My life revolves around my child's routine.

You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.

Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did not misbehave. The rest he left to the parents, and did not speculate how much the parents were leaving to him. Amid mutual compliments the boys passed out into a public school, healthy but backward, to receive upon undefended flesh the first blows of the world.