Quotes About Parenting

As the adults, we are the ones who set the stage for vitality, love, or disharmony in the home. We set ourselves up for one or the other, and our children take their cues from us.

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God's highest callings upon your life.

The future of my child is unknown but I have loved him, supported him, and taught him right from wrong. I will continue to do so...

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.

Distrust won't do good to you.But still if you ever do.Doubt you husband, Maybe doubt your wife.But never suspect, your kid's father, or the mother of your child.

What was my first word? I asked him, and he said: Don't. I asked him what my second word was but he couldn't remember. I think I'd have made something up if I was him. Like go.

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?

She wasn't easy on me, don't get me wrong. She smacked me. She scolded me. She punished me. But she loved me. She really did. She loved me falling off a swing set. She loved me stepping on her floors with muddy shoes. She loved me through vomit and snot and bloody knees. She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.

All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?' Rose chuckled. But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

But daughters have their own lives. You can't smother them. She'll get married. Have children.

He thought about his son's stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future if you didn't like it—and he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them—a mother's approval, a father's nod—are covered by moments of their own accomplishments.

You should never construct a lie based on a child's questions. It is like writing music based on cymbal crashes.

It takes a special strength to take care of a child, Chika, and a whole different strength to admit you cannot.