Quotes About Parenting

I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and dad where my mom could look at my face and know what was going on and was able to get me to talk and draw it out. As a result, I didn't have to hide an emotion. I didn't have to worry about her telling me, 'That's silly.'

I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's quite similar in writing. People forget that you're a human; they just want to give you their advice.

I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got two little boys now, and I can see it with them as well. I don't know if you learn it off your parents - but my dad used to take me to see certain plays when I was quite young, so maybe that had an effect as well.

My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Tolstoy had 13 kids and still wrote War & Peace.

Bateson proposed that the metaphor of mother Earth is no longer accurate or helpful. Human impact on nature is now so complete and irreversible that we're better off thinking of the planet as if it were our first child. It will be here after us. Its future is unknown and uncontrollable. We are forced to plan ahead for it. Our first obligation is to keep it from harm. We are learning from it how to be decent parents.

We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness" (Proverbs 20:20).

As you pray for your children, you will find it to be an unending habit of your heart. Being able to positively affect your children in prayer will keep you in close contact with them and actively involved in their lives, even after they leave home. And it will continually contribute to your joy as a parent!

It's the best of jobs. It's the most difficult of jobs. It can bring you the greatest joy. It can cause the greatest pain. There is nothing as fulfilling and exhilarating. There's nothing so depleting and exhausting. No area of your life can make you feel more like a success when everything is going well. No area of your life can make you feel more like a failure when things go wrong.

We all need to understand that we can't "fix" or "change" our adult children. Only God can make changes that last in anyone. Our job is to release our adult children into God's hands and then pray

Lord, show me how to pray for this child. Help me to raise him Your way, and may Your will be done in his life.

after the initial pain of releasing our children there comes joy and peace, both for them and us.

Instruye al niño en su camino, y aun cuando fuere viejo no se apartará de él. Proverbios 22:6

También aprendí que no debía intentar imponer mi propia voluntad sobre mi hijo durante la oración.

Los hijos recogen lo que sus padres son

Although there are different stages and seasons of parenting responsibilities, your heart and mind will always be with each one of your children for the rest of your life.

Señor, muéstrame cómo orar por mi hijo. Ayúdame a educarlo a tu manera, y que tu voluntad sea hecha en su vida.

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward. PSALM 127:3

We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by clutching them to ourselves and trying to parent them alone.

The list of God's promises to you is far longer than your list of concerns for your adult child.