Quotes About Parenting

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

It hapens very often that parents think they are worred about the progress a boy is making. they do not realise that all boys are numskulls with o branes which is not surprising when you look at the parents really the whole thing goes on and on and there is no stoping it it is a vicious circle.

my philosophy of raising kids is kind of extreme. I think you should keep a baby around for a few days after it's born—until the novelty wears off—and then you put it in a big cardboard box with all the best books of Eastern and Western civilization. Then you bury the box and dig it up again when the kid's eighteen.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

The problem with Conlan was that he had his father's unshakeable confidence and his mother's mouth.

Those books made it crystal clear that giving honey to your baby before he was a year old made you a terrible mother. The moment a spoon of honey would touch his lips, the words "Awful Mother" would appear on your forehead, forever branding you as a parenting failure.

Children think you are a god. You are the center of their universe, you can fix anything, you can shield them and protect them, and then one day they find out you can't.

The world needs more good people in it, and my son will be a good person.

I'm sorry, but I don't have anyone else to ask. If I go to Connor, my son will hold his relatives upside down one by one and shake them until they confess. Which would be a lot of fun to watch.

We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An

Let's hope your lion has some brains, otherwise your child will be a dimwit.

How is Baby B doing?" He grinned. "A wolf boy tried to steal her toy at the picnic last week. She chased him down, took the toy away, and beat him bloody with it." "You must be so proud." "Oh, I am.

She wished she had a manual or something, some kind of instruction sheet that would clearly spell out what a responsible parent did in this sort of situation. Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles