Quotes About Parenting

If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends. The research literature is quite clear on this.

And a man should look after a woman and children—although that is not all he should do. But a woman should not look after a man, because she must look after children, and a man should not be a child. This means that he must not be dependent. This is one of the reasons that men have little patience for dependent men. And let us not forget: wicked women may produce dependent sons, may support and even marry dependent men,

Two-year-olds, statistically speaking, are the most violent of people.

Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.

And if you're not thinking such things through, then you're not acting responsibly as a parent. You're leaving the dirty work to someone else, who will be much dirtier doing it.

To encourage my son to be a true Son of God? That is to want him above all to do what is right, and to strive to have his back while he is doing so.

Even the most assiduous of parents cannot fully protect their children, even if they lock them in the basement, safely away from drugs, alcohol and internet porn. In that extreme case, the too-cautious, too-caring parent merely substitutes him or herself for the other terrible problems of life. This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare.49 It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

Pravilo glasi: ''Do?i k nama ?im se uspiješ primjereno ponašati.'' To je vrlo dobra ponuda za dijete, roditelje i društvo. Lako ?ete vidjeti je li vaše dijete uistinu povratilo kontrolu i opet ?e vam se svi?ati, usprkos prijašnjemu ponašanju. Ako ste još uvijek ljuti, možda se dijete nije u potpunosti pokajalo - ili možda trebate u?initi nešto sa svojom sklonosti inatljivosti.

Parents are the arbiters of society. They teach children how to behave so that other people will be able to interact meaningfully and productively with them.

Even the most assiduous of parents cannot fully protect their children, even if they lock them in the basement, safely away from drugs, alcohol and internet porn. In that extreme case, the too-cautious, too-caring parent merely substitutes him or herself for the other terrible problems of life. This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare. It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.

And what about the idea that hitting a child merely teaches them to hit? First: No. Wrong. Too simple. For starters, "hitting" is a very unsophisticated word to describe the disciplinary act of an effective parent. If "hitting" accurately described the entire range of physical force, then there would be no difference between rain droplets and atom bombs. Magnitude matters—and so does context, if we're not being wilfully blind and naïve about the issue.

The neglect and mistreatment that is part and parcel of poorly structured or even entirely absent disciplinary approaches can be deliberate—motivated by explicit, conscious (if misguided) parental motives. But more often than not, modern parents are simply paralyzed by the fear that they will no longer be liked or even loved by their children

It is an act of responsibility to discipline a child. It is not anger at misbehavior. It is not revenge for a misdeed. It is instead a careful combination of mercy and long-term judgment.

But more often than not, modern parents are simply paralyzed by the fear that they will no longer be liked or even loved by their children if they chastise them for any reason. They want their children's friendship above all, and are willing to sacrifice respect to get it. This is not good. A child will have many friends, but only two parents—if that—and parents are more, not less, than friends.

Ne dopuštajte svojoj djeci da rade bilo što zbog ?ega vam se ne?e svi?ati.

You can discipline your children, or you can turn that responsibility over to the harsh, uncaring judgmental world—and the motivation for the latter decision should never be confused with love.

He said he had parents who were desperate anti-social alcoholic addicted friendless and that they didn't want him to leave their home. He was the only relationship they had and he asked what he should do and I told him that he should leave.

Children are damaged when their "mercifully" inattentive parents fail to make them sharp and observant and awake and leave them, instead, in an unconscious and undifferentiated state. Children are damaged when those charged with their care, afraid of any conflict or upset, no longer dare to correct them, and leave them without guidance.

Since when do you wear cologne to learn math? Oh, my son is growing up right in front of my very eyes. Maybe I should get out the video camera. Maybe you should tie me to a stake, douse me in kerosene, and torch me right on our front lawn. I won't need any kerosene, Steven - I'm sure the cologne will go up pretty fast! Ha-ha, Mom.

Por las mañanas Mi pequeñuelo Me despertaba Con un gran beso. Puesto a horcajadas Sobre mi pecho, Bridas forjaba Con mis cabellos. Ebrio él de gozo, De gozo yo ebrio, Me espoleaba Mi caballero: ¡Qué suave espuela Sus dos pies frescos! ¡Cómo reía Mi jinetuelo! Y yo besaba Sus pies pequeños, ¡Dos pies que caben En solo un beso!

Sons must aspire to be greater than their fathers, but at our apron-strings we only teach them to be children.

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

I would certainly spank my mom.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.