Quotes About Parenting

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.

Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.

The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

Couldn't get back up because his parents never let him get knocked down?

Children are like wet cement. What is modeled for them imprints their character. —Max

Dads, when you lead by example, you are sowing eternal seeds. —Max

You do things God does. Think. Question. Reflect. You blueprint buildings, chart sea crossings, and swallow throat lumps when your kids say their alphabet. You, like Adam, have a soul.

God doesn't get angry because he doesn't get his way. He gets angry because disobedience always results in self-destruction. What kind of father sits by and watches his child hurt himself?

Yesterday's Chelsea would have made both children change before leaving the house. But today's Chelsea served her kids chocolate chip muffins and walked them to the bus stop, leaving a trail of glitter and crumbs.

Parents who tell their offspring that sex is an act performed only for procreation do everyone a serious disservice.

I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.

There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up. Not really.

It is through the eyes of strangers that a parent can see their children as people.

She'll be just like me and drive her daddy crazy.

Look at our boy.

Nothing in my years in the army prepared me for having a baby," Sam said wearily. "It's not for pussies, that's for sure.

It's one thing to protect yourself," Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. "That I get. Have I ever told you not to defend yourself? No. But did you have to permanently maim him? I spent all that money on that on that fancy school for girls-not to mention all that money for the shrinks-and what did that get me?" I shrugged. "A seven-figure civil suit?

The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.

As if I would EVER give birth. I suppose a well-mannered little six-year-old would be all right, but they simply don't COME that way. You have to TRAIN them. Too tiresome. I can understand your anguish.

we'll save a lot on child care, since professors only work about three hours a week, so Tadd can stay home with them.