Quotes About Parenting

Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend it.

Never scold or beat a child until he starts asking you questions whose answers you are unable to give.

No matter how misbehaved a child, the parents will accept.

Parents usually know where a teen-age son is: he is in the family car; but they don't know where the car is.

Something you are doing everyday is what your children will remember the rest of their lives.

The advantage of having many children is that one of them may not turn out like the rest.

The first service a child does his father is to make him foolish.

The greatest gift one person can give their children is love.

You can't raise your child probably if you don't sometimes raise your voice.

Children are mirrors; they will always show you exactly what is going on inside of you. Each phase of their growth is an opportunity to heal your own pain, to go deeper inside yourself and become more truly human

Parenting is a spiritual path that can bring you great pain and great joy and that can have a tremendous positive impact on your personality and your behavior.

I believe our children, unknowingly and with innocent trickery, teach us the deeper knowledge of how to be a true human being

Right mothering meets the child's need. Focusing on what the child should not be draws resistant energy. Pointing out what the child should be feeds self-hatred and struggle.

The child who feels your respect during silences is nourished more than the child who is constantly fussed and chattered over.

You can sit and meditate while your baby cries himself to sleep. Or you can go to him and share his tears, and find your Self.

Remember that every child and every parent has a completely unique and special rela- tionship. That child knows his dad and loves his dad. Our job is to watch that communication, to nurture it, and to support the parents in their heart-to-heart relationships with their children

You and your child have a unique and very special relationship. The dos and don'ts of all the advice givers out there may or may not apply to you. You have to listen to your heart and to your child and then make the deci- sions that are good for right now, for you two.

The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

What was the funniest thing you ever saw your children do?

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

La prunelle de mes yeux.» L'expression peine à rendre ce qui lie le parent à son nouveau-né. La prunelle de ses yeux, on pouvait la lui arracher sans qu'il tombe – la moelle de mes os s'approcherait davantage, pour dire que ça parcourt tout ce qu'on est, et qu'il s'agit du lien qui s'établit, avant même qu'on soit capable de reconnaître son enfant parmi les autres.