Quotes About Parenting

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now, I have six children and no theories.

I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Nobody cares that youre smart and nobody cares that your kids dont have bruises.

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You're so innocent in the beginning; you don't know.

Britain was the last developed country where beating schoolchildren was respectable. This was outlawed last year [1988] - by one vote in Parliament. Parents are now almost the last people left who can hit children without fear of penalty, as long as it's moderate and fitting punishment...the language of authority still derives from violence, mistakenly, tragically.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. I do it with adults now.

A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man

You know what the aristocracy is like. They turn their children over to the care of nurses and governesses from the day they are born and have little to do with them after that.

Her feet hurt, for Lady Clarendon had bought her daughter shoes too small for her in an attempt to make her large feet look smaller.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

You can't play the man if you don't pray the price. That's how God turns the heart. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. And prayer is what turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destiny of their children.

Prayer is the way we take our hands off and place our children in the hands of God.

The same is true spiritually. Until kids get into the driver's seat, they won't know how to get anywhere. What do I mean? You can pray for them their entire lives, but if you never let them pray, they're just along for the ride. They won't know how to get anywhere in prayer.

Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

You don't become a praying parent by default. You do it by design, by desire, by discipline. Spiritual disciplines take sheer determination, but if you determine to circle your children in prayer, you will shape their destinies, just like Susanna Wesley shaped the destinies of her children. Your prayers will live on in their lives long after you die. Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent.