Quotes About Parenting

MOMMY WANTS A GLASS OF CHARDONNAY If you collected all the drops of days I've spent singing "Row, row, row your boat" to children fighting sleep, you'd have an ocean deep enough to drown them many times over.

We're not supposed to outlive our children. It goes against nature's plan of things.

make it everyone's business to participate actively in the money talk with your kid.

the singular cry of the wild: hey! get your stroller off my sidewalk!

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to relate them in a way which would enrich the child's life.

The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.

The security of the parent about being a parent will eventually become the source of the child's feeling secure about himself.

Good parents...give their children roots and wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the affluent and 20% among those in poverty.

Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking." And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.

if you can't have a say in your child's life during her preschool years, how can you expect to influence her to make wise choices when she's a teenager?

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Discipline your son, and he will give you peace; he will bring delight to your soul

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

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

You picked me up from school You attended all my sporting functions You bought me a car Gave me use of a credit card But how can I feel pain, How can I feel pain, How can I feel pain When you're being so supportive?

Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

As parents, my wife and I have one thing in common. We're both afraid of children.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.