Quotes About Parenting

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents; from 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.

There's no love greater than mothers love, and there's no greater sacrifice than what a father does for his kids.

The greatest gift one person can give their children is love.

I may not be able to give my kids everything they want but I give them what they need. Love, time, and attention. You can't buy those things.

Spend quality time with your children to make them feel loved, wanted, worthy and build their self-esteem up so they go out into the world with confidence!

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

Melissa and I are the proudest parents ever and this is the best thing that has happened to us this year!

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as parent is to bring out this quality and cherish it until the day your kids leave home, and then some.

Other primates get on with their own reproduction relatively soon after weaning, with gorillas having their first baby just seven or so years later.

I loved that bridge he built over the creek in the back of the house. [...] Or that baby bed he built for Ricky. I told him he didn't have to spend so much time on it, but he said it had to last, and the thing ended up weighing two hundred pounds and I couldn't move it. I said, 'How long does a baby bed have to last, anyway?' But maybe he thought if it was strong enough, it might keep Ricky a baby.

Participant: I have this eighteen-year-old son whom I haven't been able to communicate with.

It may appear that the child cares for the parent and feels bad because the parent is suffering. However, if children who assume this kind of responsibility change their behavior in accordance with parental wishes, they are not acting from the heart, but acting to avoid guilt.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

parents must constantly remind their children to say, "Thank you." It's one of the last and hardest things to teach naturally rebellious kids.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

Although we will not be perfect parents, we can, day-by-day, learn to live out God's instructions. Some day, we can hear the Lord say to us what the master told his slave, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (Matt. 25:21).

Change must begin with the parent. In Deuteronomy 6:6, God tells parents, "these words that I command you today shall be on your heart." Our children need to see in our own lives daily what we want to see in theirs.

Parents have two primary biblical responsibilities toward their children, to bring them up: (1) in the discipline of the Lord, and (2) in the instruction of the Lord.