Quotes About Parenting

Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.

I never once doubted that my parents cared about my thoughts and my ideas. And I always, always knew how deeply they loved me. That feeling of being valued and loved, that's what my mom wants for every child.

My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.

We should teach our children about the reality of failure. Instead of buying them iPhones and iPads, we should teach them values and reality.

Tolstoy meant that, in order to be happy, a marriage must succeed in many different respects: sexual attraction, agreement about money, child discipline, religion, in-laws, and other vital issues.

Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby.

William made his own children sign a checkout slip if they wanted to carry a book

She was the sort of parent you would want to have living close by, but only on the grounds that she would then never come to stay. I loved her dearly, but in small doses.

I watched her leave, smiling to myself. I thought I knew my mother but I didn't. Children rarely know their parents at all.

I know it's supposed to take a village to raise our children, but why does ours have so many village idiots?

But the old cripple never knew the joy of cradling a child in his own arms.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he had eaten his fill he left me. Jordan... I should have named him after a stagnant pond and then I could have kept him, but I named him after a river and in the flood-tide he slipped away.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

Babies are frightening -- raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body.

Neither parent spoke. Milo stood between them like a lighthouse between the rocks and the shipwreck.

Mi madre odiaba ser una don nadie, así que como todos los niños, adoptados o no, he tenido que vivir algunas de las vidas que ella no pudo vivir. Es algo que hacemos por nuestros padres, no tenemos otra opción.

She hated being a nobody, and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents – we don't really have any choice

The worst education is to leave him floating between his will and yours, and to dispute endlessly between you and him as to which of the two will be the master.

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself.

As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood. (The Queen Fantasque)