Quotes About Parenting

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

Parenting role-play change every ten years from affection to duty to responsibility, and then the cycle must reverse with next generation playing the same in the reverse sequence.

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.

Kids eh? Little treasures, I love 'em... couldn't eat a whole one though.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

Your children are your legacy to the world. As you raise them with love, you contribute to making this world a better place.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

Teach the Scriptures to your children daily, discipline your children consistently, and love your children unconditionally. If you do these things, you will have acted biblically.

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

With children Love is spelled TIME.

The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.

I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and said, 'Daddy, universe or multiverse?'

There are moments when you love babies, and you're like, "God, they are the reason why we exist." Then they start crying, and you're like "God! Jesus!"

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.