Quotes About Parenting

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a thigh gap was necessary to be deemed attractive.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

I owe it to my children to secure their future.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

It's not like you can start pounding drinks when you're wheeling your kids all over. They gave me something to shoot for, a goal to get back to.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.

Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values; honesty, respect, responsibility . . . Parents must teach their children from the earliest age the difference between right and wrong. But we must all do our part.

The age of our fathers, which was worse than that of our ancestors, produced us, who are about to raise a progeny even more vicious than ourselves.

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

The baby is fine. The only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.