Quotes About Parenting

When children have shame-based parents, they identify with them. This is the first step in the child's internalizing shame because the children carry their parent's shame.

One of the great advances of our generation has been the exposure of child abuse. We have come to see that our prevailing rules for raising children shame and violate their uniqueness and their dignity. Such rules have been a part of our emotional endarkenment. Alice Miller has shown with painful clarity how our current parenting rules have aimed at making the child fit the projected image of the parent. They have also enforced the idealization of parents by the wounded child.

No matter what you teach the child, he insists on behaving like his parents.

part of the parenting process is helping children understand that they are not the center of the universe.

We may not be able to choose our ancestors, but we can attempt to shape our descendants. If we encourage our children to stand on our shoulders, they will certainly see farther than we have. John

It's like the mom who told the little kid to sit down in the grocery cart at the supermarket. He kept standing up and she kept telling him to sit down. Finally she reprimanded him firmly enough that he sat down. She heard him whisper to himself as he was scrambling down, "I may be sitting down on the outside, but I'm standing up on the inside!" When

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a...very brutal disciplinarian.

A father is God's gift to every child, children need the very basics to grow into fine youth just give them all the Love you can.

Children are the Shades of both mother and father, whether poor or rich every one had a wonderful creative life growing up with them.

Most times, how you treat your children is how they grow up to treat you.

Be Honest when you are with your kids, because you see your past in their eyes and they see their future in yours.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Children will rarely appreciate their legacy with the same ardency that their parents labored to provide it.

Your child is always your child, regardless of age. You feel their feelings, share in their joys and hurt in their sorrows.

Take control of the time you have with your kids as one day they will be all grown up and have their own friends and things to do. Cherish every moment you have with them now as you might not see them as they get older. It becomes their schedule not yours!

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.

The first half of our lives is spoiled by our parents, and the last half by our children.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

A bad father has never a good son

A greedy father has thieves for children

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough