Quotes About Parenting

Parenting is the biggest sacrifice one can make, it's putting your life on hold to fulfill the promise of your children's tomorrow's.

I understand the term Yolo, but its certain things you should stop doing when you become a parent. Nevertheless, you are in control of Y.our O.wn L.ife O.ptions. Be a role model...

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair

Life is but one continual course of instruction, The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You will never have this day again with your children, tomorrow they will be older, the days you have with your Children are a gift. Relish and cherish the charms of the presence each and everyday!

Our children are only ever lent to us. We never know how long we will be able to keep them for. So kiss them, cuddle them, praise them & hold them tightly. But most of all... tell them that you LOVE them...

Children are our most precious resource, but a good parent or parent-like figure are becoming almost extinct. If you are blessed to have one, never let an opportunity go by to not show your gratitude because everything, everyone has an expiration date.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

The truth is not all sweet, nor is it always bitter. To raise a child to understand this and hence not fear the truth is to have raised a champion.

Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.

Remember this: the way you treat your mother,thats the way your children later in life would treat you.

A parents job isn't to prevent their children from falling, but to pick them up when they do.

Parenting means, being there, as a parent, setting an example for how you would want them to live...

The only thing my dad taught me, was how to survive and that was by him not being there. A man made me, mummy raised me.

My mother, torn between her love for my father and her hope that I might turn out to have brains, preserved an impartiality which she expressed by silence.

Niet om onzentwil, maar omdat vader en moeder naar een aardig speelpopje verlangen, wordt een kind de levenstaak opgelegd.

But there's a small percentage who are nothing but born predators. And for them, no amount of good parenting, quality schooling, or therapy sessions will ever make a bit of difference.

My mother was a narcissist who'd never wanted me and didn't even particularly like, let alone love, me.

Cooper shook his head. "The things we do for our children." Natalie managed a thin, tight smile. "When do you have to go?" "Soon. I want to see the kids first." "Do you want to… you could stay. The night.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

It is, perhaps, part of the human condition that children, as they grow to adulthood, must disentangle themselves from who their parents dreamt they might be, in order to figure out who they really are or hope to be. For