Quotes About Parenting

A daughter is a gift of love.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

A primary role of the father is to teach the baby that love and comfort are not necessarily associated with food.

A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

Good fathers make good sons.

Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know.

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.

I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school.

Twice as much to love, two blessings from above.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.

Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.

The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.

Do not nurse a kid who wears braces.

Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Telling your kids to define their identities and behaviour by their feelings is just setting them up to have confusing and difficult lives.

The eggs do not teach the hen.

In 1960 the US Census reported that 9 per cent of children lived in a family with one parent; by 2010 this had increased to 27 per cent. In the UK today, there is a similar proportion: