Quotes About Parenting

From a friend you need to take crap. But I'm not your friend. I'm your father. And nobody needs to take crap from their father.

Theresa dismissively. "It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid." "What makes me saddest," said John Paul, "is that Locke is getting credit for caring about Ender more than anybody. So when his identity does come out, it'll look as though he loyally stepped in to protect his brother.

Don't you? said Father. To spare the rod is to spoil the child---God has told us how to make our children pure from the moment they achieve accountability until they have mastered their own discipline. I strike my son's body to teach his spirit to embrace the pure love of Christ. You will teach him to hate his enemies, so that it no longer matters whether his body is living or dead, for his soul will be polluted and God will spit him out of his mouth.

You're Greek and I'm Armenian. Of course we need to raise our children to speak Portuguese.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

So what is the way of raising a child? At a young age, said the judge, they should be put in a pit with wild dogs. They should be set to puzzle out from their proper clues the one of three doors that does not harbor wild lions. They should be made to run naked in the desert until Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Loretta told me that she had heard on the radio about some percentage of the children in this country bein raised by their grandparents. I forget what it was. Pretty high, I thought. Parents wouldnt raise em. We talked about that. What we thought was that when the next generation come along and they dont want to raise their children neither then who is goin to do it? Their own parents will be the only grandparents around and they wouldnt even raise them.

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink...

How was she supposed to deal with a child? She could hardly manage to keep her own painful heart together.

Did you have to learn from your own parents how to love your child?

Our boy owes us nothing. No boy owes his parents. Parents owe their children everything, always and unconditionally, and that's just the way it goes.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

I'm sorry we lied to you, Mother. But the ends justify the means… A fine outcome excuses a bad method… You'll understand when you're older.

Ah, being a parent is so much harder than it looks. And just because you are old, does not mean that you do not make mistakes. So that is the story of the Great Jailbreak of Gormincrag.

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.

Did I used to think being pretty was my primary obligation because I was in some way delusional? Or was it that I'd absorbed the messages I was meant to absorb with the same diligence with which I studied? As the mother of a daughter, I hope she won't judge herself as harshly as I judged myself, but her personality is so unlike mine - she is boisterous and outspoken - that I'm not inordinately concerned.

At last, after a minute or so, Bill said, "It's beyond me how anyone could have you as a daughter and not be bursting with pride.

I felt sorry for Yoko, who must have longed for her daughter, but at the same time I wondered whether John had made some kind of odd pact with her—I won't see my child until you see yours. It was the only explanation I could think of for his neglect of Julian.

Why, what have I done to the children, I should like to know? But they're like yourself; you've put 'em up to your own tricks and nasty ways—you've learned 'em in it, you 'ave.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Remember that tomorrow when you are trying to get somebody to do something. If, for example, you don't want your children to smoke, don't preach at them, and don't talk about what you want; but show them that cigarettes may keep them from making the basketball team or winning the hundred-yard dash.