Quotes About Parenting

train up your children well – train well for this life, and train well for the life to come; train well for earth, and train well for heaven; train them for God, for Christ, and for eternity.

God says expressly, Train up a child in the way he should go, and He never gave a command that He did not give man grace to perform.

This is the thought that should be uppermost on your mind in all you do for your children. In every step you take for them – in every plan, scheme, and arrangement that concerns them – do not leave out that mighty question, "How will this affect their souls?

1 Kings 1:6: his father had never crossed him at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?" That was the foundation of all the mischief. David was an overindulgent father, a father who let his children have their own way, and he reaped according as he had sown.

but if you do not take the trouble with your children when they are young, they will give you trouble when they are old. Choose which you prefer.

the vast majority of children are not trained in the way they should go, for when they reach adulthood, they do not walk with God.

Train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would go. Remember, children are born with a decided bias towards evil; therefore, if you let them choose for themselves, they are certain to choose wrong.

All of this is one of God's merciful arrangements. He gives your children a mind that will receive impressions like moldable moist clay. He gives them a disposition at the beginning of life to believe what you tell them, to take for granted what you advise them, and to trust your word rather than a stranger's. In short, He gives you a golden opportunity of doing them good. See that the opportunity is not neglected and thrown away. Once it slips away, it is gone forever.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. … You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you." – Kahlil Gibran, "On Children" from The Prophet

Two things children shall receive from their parents: roots and wings

Insanity is hereditary—you get it from your kids. ~Sam Levenson

A proud parent boasts little of a son's abilities and his achievements. But glories in his kindness, his gentleness, his quiet courage. Pam Brown

let your kids experience as much microbial diversity as you can find. Get them outside, let them interact with animals, allow them to play in the dirt, rivers, streams, ocean. Don't sterilize everything they are going to touch or put into their mouth. A great example of this is the pacifier that falls on the ground. Parents who sterilize the binky run the risk of increasing the likelihood that their child will develop food sensitivities later in life.

I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

significant effect on the behavioral and intellectual development of their children." —Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley, Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

You should have seen her this morning,' he said, smiling. 'She's got into the pantry and tipped a box of Cheerios all over the kitchen floor. I walk in and she's crawling around eating them as fast as she can. Mum's standing there, watching her - she got this embarrassed look when she saw me - she does, 'I know, I know, but I can't bring myself to stop her. She thinks she's hit the jackpot.

if you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of (good) books is the best of all.

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.