Quotes About Parenting

So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left —" Don't talk to your mother like that.

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

The distant father. This is the father who was physically in the home but was disengaged. He may have been depressed. Or maybe he never learned to show emotion because of painful experiences in his own life such as post-traumatic stress disorder or physical abuse. This type of dad finds it very difficult to show affection to a child or to say, "I love you." So the child, who is starved for healthy affection, will assume that he or she is not loved.

The critical father. Many children grow up to hate their fathers (or mothers) because of negativity in the home. While parents must discipline their children in order to steer them in the right moral direction, a father who constantly berates his son or daughter will severely impair that child's success. This type of parent is often found in legalistic religious homes. Strict discipline imposed without a demonstration of tender love can turn a child away from faith.

There are not a few people to whom I would far rather speak about their own sins, than tell them their children had done anything wrong.

My mom would go crazy. I can't read all these sex poems. We're Christian.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

We have taken government and turned it into a surrogate parent, even a surrogate self, as we let regulation replace conscience. We

Never be a hypocrite in language or action. Core values are those your children will come to see as the true morality. And with them, and your guidance, your children will respect you, and you will respect yourself.

unquestioning obedience to "absolute" rules—turns out to be the single least productive thing we can do for our children's moral development.

What we truly want is the satisfaction of seeing our children become mature, self-reliant human beings, at any age, thinking for themselves, free and happy. Parents who want anything else are obsessed with control and not free and happy themselves.

I eventually learned to correct behaviors by having my children recognize and name the problem themselves. Replace "Don't pull the dog's ears" with "Why is pulling the dog's ears a bad idea?" Very young kids can grapple with that, and you've required them to reason, not just to obey. Good practice.

you need a license to drive, have a dog, or even to fish—but they'll let anyone be a father.

Neither of them had any particular longing for material wealth except as it would aid them in this life's work of parental responsibility. In their eyes it was far more important that each of their children grow up to be noted for honesty and integrity than that any one of them should make a mark in the world. Both worked unceasingly all the days of their lives and taught their children to love work." 4

Like Mormonism and Jazz, Parentology is a uniquely American, improvisational approach to the raising of children.

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

The hardest thing in the world is making a kid happy after he's been circumcised.

My own daughter a streetwalker! If you have any consideration for your parents at all you'll do the only decent thing. What's that? You'll leave this house and not come back until you're a virgin.

Your mom is weird," I told Ryan.

immature, Arlo!" said Andrea. "I bet their daughter's

never to take candy from strangers

But it's not cool to laugh at your parents' jokes, as you well know.

It seems like only yesterday that I was giving him a bath in our kitchen sink.

When a mother "protects" a son by routinely correcting his father's style to match her own, she diminishes the opportunity for a genuine and uniquely valuable quality of parenting.