Quotes About Parenting

Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.

I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

Not every Father is a Dad..

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Hämningar växer inte på träd förstår ni - det behövs tålamod, det behövs koncentration, det behövs en hängiven och självuppoffrande förälder och ett hårt arbetande, uppmärksamt litet barn för att på bara några år skapa en riktigt hämmad och knuten och förstoppad människa.

He thinks, Because ... [x9]. But all he says to his son is, 'Because I don't want to lose my children.

The deepest longings we feel on earth, as parents, as lovers, are mere flickers of the hungering desire God feels for us. It is a desire that cost him the Incarnation and the Crucifixion.

I used to worry about falling asleep during prayer. Now, as a parent, I understand. What parent wouldn't want her child to fall asleep in her arms?

But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And every step thereafter, I know. Every step of his life, and me not there to see him walk.

When you raise a child and he becomes a man, you start to think that he is safe

I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?

Well, I know what I want to be too," she told her parents. "An actress on Broadway." "Caroline, you're always onstage, twenty-four hours a day," said her father. "You can't even tie your shoes without making a production of it." Caroline wasn't sure if that was a compliment or not.

You know, Jean, maybe it's a good thing we had all girls. If those Hatford boys belonged to us, we'd be in a mental ward.

Mother went back inside when the police had gone, but Dad did not. Instead he walked to the edge of the porch, cupped his hands over his mouth, and bellowed like a bull moose. "Wallace, Joshua, and Joseph! Get in here! Now !" "You want to spend the night in the woods?" Wally whispered to his brothers. "He'd just come looking for us," said Josh.

Only in Xanth would parents see a dragon looming over their children and depart with confidence.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force.

When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing,—then reprove them, as I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and thinking that they are something when they are really nothing.

Parents often fail to address early childhood lying, since the lying is almost innocent—their child's too young to know what lies are, or that lying's wrong. When their child gets older and learns those distinctions, the parents believe, the lying will stop. This is dead wrong, according to Dr. Talwar.

In one study, Cummings found that children's emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by the direct relationship between the parent and child.