Quotes About Parenting

as a teen parent, I enlisted in the U.S. Army. Did my advanced individual training at Fort Benning, then I was stationed with the 25th Infantry at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Spent four years out there with the Tropic Lightning outfit, firing rifles and grenade launchers, riding around in armored personnel carriers—learning

The purpose of management, leadership, parenting, or governing - any form of organizational leadership - is to solve today's problems and get ready to deal with tomorrow's problems. And that means managing change.

Watching my four year old daughter dance I cannot break free of her.

Hank was his parents' child in every respect. Whether through propinquity or some mystery of DNA, Hank had Lilly's driving ambition, but it would be repeatedly subverted by Lon's tendency to backslide.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

A child be one's greatest test of all.

Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.

Being a dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

You're not the to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.

You're not children to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.

There is no greater ordeal for a gifted men than to raise a son

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.

Sometimes in our attempt to give children what we did not have, we forget to give our children what we did have.

Lorraine's voice was kind and patient. Personally, I'd have told the kid to shut up and get in the car. Guess that's why I don't have kids.

It was not altogether easy when one's daughters were too gifted, it really wasn't. Mrs. Lossius nodded in the direction of Harriet, who, well brought up and virtuous, was busy with the coffee kettle. "You can be glad, Mrs Pram, that your daughters are not gifted in any particular direction.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.

The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.