Quotes About Parenting

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.

I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Good Lord, Rory Lee!" Ronnie snarled. "You don't throw babies! Especially mine!" "Look what he did to me!" Rory pointed at his unmarred neck. "What am I looking at?" Sissy Mae asked. "'Cause I don't see nothin'." "Just wait until the little bastard grows into his fangs," Rory promised. "Then you'll see!

The entire floor teeming with full-humans watching their children skate, all of them hoping to be the breeder of the next gold Olympian.

As loving mothers, we surely made mistakes. All parents do. But as kind and supportive parents, we did our best. We must recognize that no matter the choices our adult children make, their behavior doesn't diminish the good we did or continue to do. Someone's inability to see our value does not detract from our worth.

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

The real emergency may be parents and children not having conversations or sharing a silence between them that gives each the time to bring up a funny story or a troubling thought.

Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

if you never teach your children how to be alone then they will only know how to be lonely for the rest of their lives.

Often it is children who tell their parents to put away the cell phone at dinner.

So, instead of doing your email as you push your daughter in her stroller, talk to her. Instead of putting a digital tablet in your son's baby bouncer, read to him and chat about the book. Instead of a quick text if you find a conversation going stale, make an effort to engage your peers.

We can't relate to others until we are comfortable with ourselves. That's a psychoanalytic first principle: If you don't teach your children to be alone, they'll only know how to be lonely.

The My Real Babies frightened her,

I looked at mother with adoration in my own eyes, and when she had taken the kerosene lamp and had gone away, and when we boys were all again curled quietly like sleeping puppies in the bed, I cried a little, as I am sure father must have cried sometimes when there was no one about. Perhaps his getting drunk, as he did on all possible occasions, was a way of crying too.

If you observe a baby, you'll quickly see that we are born knowing what we like and don't like, when we're hungry, tired, or need connection. We know ourselves quite well at birth, and it's only as a result of well-meaning parents, teachers, doctors, other adults, and caregivers that our innate self-trust is damaged.

I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.