Quotes About Parenting

Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.

If your children asked you about your honesty with God, Let them look at the pictures with the person you married and was the reason they're alive...and they will understand.

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

No one said parenting was easy, but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard.

Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.

Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?''I'm not sure... you might have to learn to love it, like any other person.

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

Oh... Blip. Yeah, I see." He sounds distracted, awed. "Your child, " I whisper."Our child." He counters.

Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.

The modus operandi by which this astounding result was achieved is not hard to describe. It consisted of three very definite facts; first, I MIXED FAITH with the DESIRE for normal hearing, which I passed on to my son. Second, I communicated my desire to him in every conceivable way available, through persistent, continuous effort, over a period of years. Third, HE BELIEVED ME!

It should be recognized as a crime (in reality it is a crime of the worst nature), for any parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a child, through unnecessary criticism.

Millions of children have had their imagination dwarfed and retarded by parents who removed as much as possible of the urge of necessity. By "making it easy" for your child you may be depriving the world of a genius. Bear in mind the fact that most of the progress that man has made came as the result of bitter, biting NECESSITY!

Conduct yourself toward your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves toward you.

soccer moms try to eliminate the trial and error, the antifragility, from children's lives

De niño había sido un poco endeble, y mi padre lo llevaba a caminar a la montaña para robustecerlo, como hacía, por otro lado, con todos nosotros. Mario acumuló un odio sordo por la montaña y, apenas pudo sustraerse al dominio de mi padre, dejó de ir totalmente.

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

Children need limits and feel anxious in their absence. This is one of the reasons they test limits—to be certain they are there. They need to know that someone is flying the plane.

The answer to this last is simple: In supporting and nurturing the self-esteem of our children, we support and nurture our own.

The more specifically targeted our praise, the more meaningful it is to the child. Praise that is generalized and abstract leaves the child wondering what exactly is being praised. It is not helpful.

However, to think of stimulating the mind of the child usually requires a higher level of consciousness (and of patience) of the parent than does the practice of handing down ready-made solutions. Impatience is often the enemy of good parenting.

Emotionally remote and inhibited parents tend to produce emotionally remote and inhibited children.

I will not speak! answered Hester, turning pale as death, but responding to this voice, which she too surely recognized. And my child must seek a heavenly father; she shall never know an earthly one!

Mindful, however, of her own errors and misfortunes, she early sought to impose a tender, but strict control over the infant immortality that was committed to her charge. But the task was beyond her skill.