Quotes About Parenting

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Your baby doesn't need a pillow for her head, and you should not use one. Likewise, it's best to keep stuffed animals out of your baby's crib or cradle; little babies don't care much about them, and they may pose a suffocation

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

The surest way to raise mentally healthy children is to cultivate loving, nurturing, and mutually respectful relationships with them. Loving means, first of all, accepting your child as a person. Every child has strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges. Loving means adjusting your expectations to fit your child, not trying to adjust your child to fit your expectations.

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

you might need to offer him a feed 30 minutes after waking if he hasn't shown hunger cues before that time. But if you find he's more receptive to feeding if you wait longer, then do so.

I quickly began to long for the days when I had been able to eat my pizza unmolested without Dad insisting on sit-down dinners.

What was difficult to deal with was his permanent anxiety: when we were little, he was afraid we'd go and play outside or wander a bit too far away; later on, motorbikes and drugs were real nightmares for him. When he was angry, this was always due to anxiety, especially if we came home later than we'd said we would.

Like millions of parents, I chose to send my children to a religious school that shares my belief system, which is central to my life. I objected to changes in the school that, in my opinion, did not reflect that belief system.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

Our kids are reflections of us. How we interact with others, even in a hostile situation... how we respond and our children see that is how they are going to respond.

I try to be a friend to my boys just the way my dad was with me. Subconsciously that reflects in my writing.

It's refreshing and weird when your kids get older and they're able to tell you how they feel and what they want.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

Mum was nuts - you'd get a bucket of water over you if you refused to get out of bed.

In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

There was no pressure at home regarding grades. We were expected to study and pass but luckily our parents gave us a broader education.