Quotes About Parenting

Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.

A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

A wise son maketh a glad father.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.

I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.