Quotes About Parenting

What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one.

You can only be as happy as your saddest child.

The way you treat a child, from the time that child is born, is what sets them up to either succeed or struggle. What you are really saying is, how you were loved informs the way your important neural networks are shaped, especially those core regulatory networks we

the way you treat a child, from the time that child is born, is what sets them up to either succeed or struggle…how you were loved informs the way your important neural networks are shaped, especially those core regulatory networks

And when children don't feel respected by the decisions of their parents, their beliefs about how they are valued are crushed. (Dr. Bruce Perry)

No era en absoluto de esos padres que riñen, prohíben y castigan. Especialmente en los primeros años de mi infancia, cuando salía por ahí y jugaba con él, sentía que el mundo era un lugar divertido al que el hombre venía para ser feliz.

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew. He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six. Right. And you're the oldest. Yes. That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

The child is mine and Petra's. It's especially important to us because it's the first we know of that definitely does not have my condition. You mean it isn't ugly?

He can have friends. It's parents he can't have.

There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.

Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.

If you read to your kids, you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent-time.

Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but because of the gift. Father doesn't stay with Mother because she is good for him, but rather because together they can do good for us, and for many others.

What I understand now is this: There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.

binding yourself to another person and to the children you make together, that's life.

Everyone thinks they do, until they take a child into their heart. Only then do you know what it is to be a hostage to love. To have someone else's life matter more than your own.

You really are the stupidest smart kid in the world," said Mother.

Does a daughter judge her father?" whispered Qing-jao. "Of course she does," said Father. "Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely.