Quotes About Parenting

es igual de fácil y toma el mismo tiempo decir, "Lo siento, mi vida. En este momento no tengo tiempo", en lugar de "¡¿Qué no puedes ver que estoy ocupado?! ¡Deja de molestar!". Con los niños, un sencillo acto de cortesía puede hacer mucho.

tener padres felices y relajados es el mayor regalo que podemos dar a nuestros hijos.

Los padres tienden a prestar mayor atención a sus hijos cuando tienen un mal comportamiento que cuando hacen las cosas de manera correcta. En general, los niños están mucho más sujetos a las críticas que a los elogios y esto quizá tenga un efecto negativo sobre su autoimagen y seguridad propia. Los niños necesitan más reforzamiento positivo.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

I had come to think that the Wampanoag, who dealt so kindly with their babes, were wiser than we in this. What profit was there in requiring little ones to behave like adults? Why bridle their spirits and struggle to break their God-given nature before they had the least understanding of what was wanted of them?

Like father, like son.

No matter what, Dad was always there with solid words of advice . . . "Go ask your mother."

Dad named his first ulcer after me.

MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well, I know how much you need your sleep, so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy, and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

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

Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

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

The best way to bring up some children is short.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.