Quotes About Parenting

Si los padres comienzan en la infancia, frustrando las primeras exigencias gritadas, el niño nunca desarrollará el hábito. En nuestra casa los berrinches eran totalmente desconocidos porque desde la primera vez que se intentaban hacíamos que fuera contraproducente.

If parents carefully and consistently train up their children, their performance will be superior to that of a well-trained, seeing-eye dog.

One father proudly told of how he fearlessly overcame by promising the child ice cream if he would only wait until they left the store. Such compromises will only affirm the child in his commitment to terrorist tactics. You are not gaining control of the child; he is gaining control of you. All children are trained, some carelessly or negligently, and some with varied degrees of forethought. All parental responses are conditioning the child's behavior, and are therefore training.

Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.

In a perfect world, a woman receives her crown from her father, and her mother shows her how it is to be worn.

Some parents expect too much of their children and others expect too little. Both can be equally damaging.

They trap us like that - babies- with one look they can take hold of our hearts because our hearts have no defences against such beauty and fragility.

Loving children is easy. Keeping them is hard.

My love for a child will be greater than my love for an adult because it is a singular love that isn't based on physical attraction, or shared experiences, or the pleasures of intimacy, or time together. It is unconditional, immeasurable, unshakeable.

Anyone who says honesty is the best policy is living in la-la land. Either that or they have never been married or had children. Parents lie to their kids all the time--about sex, drugs, death, and a hundred other things. We lie to those we love to protect their feelings. We lie because that's what love means, whereas unfettered honesty is cruel and the height of self-indulgence.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.' Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The whole idea of getting married and having children terrifies me. What if becoming a parent doesn't make me grow up? It could be just a cheap disguise. It's not cheap.

Tell me, storyteller, what is the greatest mistake a parent can make? -To believe that your children will be just like you

Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?" she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. "Independence. To allow them go out into the world and make their own decisions, travel their own paths.

What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?' she asked. 'To believe that your children will be just like you.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

What ends up happening with a lot of progressive liberals in San Francisco," said Tom, "is they get to go home to their nice house in Noe Valley and six-figure job and kids in private school. They can afford to vote progressively for social justice because they don't have to walk their kids through the Tenderloin and play hopscotch over the feces and needles.

For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

El amor de los padres a sus hijos es algo constatable, es una suerte de fenómeno natural, sobre todo en las mujeres; pero los hijos no corresponden nunca a este amor y nunca son dignos de recibirlo, el amor de los hijos a sus padres es absolutamente contra natura.

Cécile lo dijo con un extraño orgullo, a pesar de que a todas luces no sabía nada de esos escritores, y es curioso el orgullo que sienten los padres por los estudios de sus hijos, incluso y sobre todo cuando no entienden nada de ellos, es un hermoso sentimiento humano, pensó Paul.

Yo era un hijo de puta, y lo sabía. Lo normal es que los padres se sacrifiquen. Yo no conseguía soportar que se acabara mi juventud, no podía soportar la idea de que mi hijo iba a crecer, iba a ser joven por mí, y que a lo mejor iba a tener éxito en la vida cuando la mía era un fracaso. Quería volver a ser una persona

While I may want to take my kids out of this world, God continually shows His power in our kids to help them stand firm in it!

Children raised by the I-Can't-Say-No parent often grow up too quickly, suffer from chronic boredom, think that rules don't apply to them, become poor money managers, are unable to cultivate healthy emotional boundaries with others, and have an unhealthy attachment to you in adulthood.

What is my end goal in raising each of the children God has entrusted to me, and then how will I parent them with that end in mind?