Quotes About Parenting

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

There will be so may times you feel like you've failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are super Mom.

As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.

Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

The unconditional love for your child, it's truly amazing.

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do… it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

Marriage is just fancy word to adopt an over grown male child who is no more handled by his parents.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.