Quotes About Parenting

One reason I didn't hold any grudges or harsh feelings toward Dad must have been that my mother seldom blamed him—at least not to us or in our hearing. I can hardly think of a time when she spoke against him.

Someone wise, I forget who, said we must leave our children to fate.

With Stiorra too," I said, and felt a pang of guilt. I have been a careless father. My eldest son was an outlaw to me because of his damned religion, Uhtred had turned out well, but none of that was my doing, while Stiorra was a mystery to me.

Certe persone desidererebbero che i loro figli leggessero di più. Io vorrei che tu leggessi di meno.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

A woman raises her bairns, and then no matter how much she loves them, she must let them go on to live their own lives.

You're never too old to keep failing your children, are you? Why weren't we told this was a life sentence?

How can you tell a little about your whole child?

There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother. Proverbs 30:11

All our lives God retains the strong feelings toward us that infants evoke in their parents. He never has to let us go.

I've since arrived at the conclusion that God often makes children who are going to be extra work extra cute.

It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing.

I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.

I think there's been a big psychological shift in people my age raising children. The world that they are growing into requires a different style of parenting.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research.

If I had kids, I'd probably be way over-protective, researching everything they begged to see to make sure the content was appropriate.

I need the help of my nannies, but I don't want my children being raised in something that resembles a group home.

I personally don't resent having my children.

I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.