Quotes About Parenting

Your children see the power of a life of faith as they see you living it.

Genesis 18 calls fathers to direct their children to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Being a parent means working in God's behalf to provide direction for your children. Directors are in charge. It involves knowing and helping them to understand God's standard for children's behavior. It means teaching them that they are sinners by nature. It includes pointing them to the mercy and grace of God shown in Christ's life and death for sinners.

A parent who is respectful to his children and teaches them with dignity and respect will be respected by his children.

La mayoría de los libros acerca de la crianza dan consejos, ya sea sobre cómo formar y restringir la conducta de los niños o cómo hacerles sentir bien con quienes son. El control o el éxito personal de los hijos son considerados los objetivos de la crianza. El primero hace los deseos de los padres la prioridad; el segundo pone los deseos infantiles como supremos.

Your heart's desire in every phase of childrearing is to see your children internalize the gospel.

Don't talk to your children about that which you have spoken little with God.

As a parent, you must exercise authority. You must require obedience of your children because they are called by God to obey and honor you. You must exercise authority, not as a cruel taskmaster, but as one who truly loves them.

The central focus of parenting is the gospel. You need to direct not simply the behavior of your children, but the attitudes of their hearts.

Since there is no such thing as a place of childhood neutrality, your children either worship God or idols.

Parents tend to focus on the externals of behavior rather than the internal overflow of the heart.

los niños, por lo general, no se rebelan contra la autoridad que es verdaderamente bondadosa y abnegada.

our goal is not to maintain control at any cost; it is rather to persuade. Influence and persuasion are always more important than discipline.

When you fail to hold out God's standard, you rob your children of the mercy of the gospel.

Our kids are always serving something, either God or a substitute for God—an idol of the heart. 

If authority best describes the parent's relationship to the child, the best description of the activity of the parent to the child is shepherding.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him" (Proverbs 22:15).

It is easy for a parent to say, "I am right and I am angry, therefore my anger is righteous anger." It may be that we are just angry because we are not getting what we want.

A regular habit of talking together prepares the way for talking in strained situations. You will never have the hearts of your children if you talk with them only when something has gone wrong.

Clear directives and thorough reinforcement are essential. Never allow your children to disobey without dealing with them. When they disobey, they are moving out of the circle of God's blessing into a place of grave peril. If you understand the fear of the Lord, you will not allow your child to ignore God's law without intervening. Your intervention is turning him back into the circle of blessing.

Respectful teenagers are developed when they are 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, not at 13, 14, 15, or 16.

Teach your children that ungodly behavior begins with ungodly attitudes of heart, but godly behavior begins with godly attitudes of heart. Below

A young child does not give proper weight to words alone. His attention is secured when those words are punctuated by a sound spanking.

Parenting is not just child-care. We can have a vision for formative instruction that will transform our homes and communities.

You must regard parenting as one of your most important tasks while you have children at home. This is your calling. You must raise your children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. You cannot do so without investing yourself in a life of sensitive communication in which you help them understand life and God's world.