Quotes About Parenting

Your parent is not open to your thoughts, feelings, and ideas; does not relate to or care about your feelings; does not feel a need to change anything about himself; and can become enraged that you think that he is less than perfect. You cannot win, or even make any inroads into your parent's self-absorption.

Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back, but so they will kiss their children, and their children's children.

You have kids and you think I made you, so we're the same, but it's not true. You just get to live with them for a while and maybe help them figure things out.

You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten years walking beside them while they figure out how to be a person.

Fathers, on the other hand, were there to toughen children up, to say Walk it off when mothers would hold them if they fell. Mothers were the carrot. Fathers were the stick.

rather than raising us, their children, from a place of love, they raised us in fear. Doesn't it stand to reason that their fear would shape the adults we become? Anxious, plagued by a constant sense that something, everything, is wrong. Their fear has crippled us, and our inability to function only feeds our anxiety. We are failing at life. So now all we are is failure.

languages. Rather, he gave himself entirely to the raising of Laura, a beautiful little girl who,

When we continue to do things for our children that they could do for themselves, we are unintentionally robbing them of opportunities to become self-reliant and confident. Doing for our children what they can do for themselves also sends them a negative message either that we think they can't do it, or that they don't have to do it.

Descriptive Praise is about noticing and commenting on exactly what your child has done that is right or just okay, or even what he hasn't done wrong.

KEY CONCEPT Superlative Praise = vague, exaggerated, and ineffective Wow, your homework is fantastic! Descriptive Praise = specific, true, and motivating You answered all the questions on this worksheet, even though you weren't sure about some of the answers. You didn't leave any blanks. You challenged yourself and wrote down something for every single question.

Because Descriptive Praise is so specific, it cannot be argued with; it is a fact. You're not making sweeping, exaggerated statements that can easily be disputed or discounted. Instead, you are describing, very specifically and in detail, what your child is doing that pleased you. Maybe he did the right thing, or maybe it was just barely okay, but it was an improvement on what he might have done. You can even notice and mention when your child is not doing anything wrong.

KEY CONCEPT Descriptive Praise improves behavior The concept of Descriptive Praise is easy to grasp: 1. Notice a little thing that your child is doing that is right—or even the smallest step in the right direction! 2. Tell your child exactly what you notice. Describe the behavior in detail. 3. Leave out the over-the-top superlatives.

It's not God I want, it's someone in skin!" a child once cried out to his mother. With an almost unbearable honesty, he expressed the extravagant—and even sacrilegious—nature of parent-child love. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," God boomed in the desert. But parents and children do have a way of filling the universe with each other.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

Kohei Goshi, the 81 year old founder of the Japan Productivity Center, our host in Japan, said, "Americans are very good at inventing, but we may be better at raising a baby.

We take children from their parents because these cannot give them an intellectual training. So far, good. But we fail to give them that training in character which parents alone can give. Home influence, as Grace Aguilar conceived it—where has it gone? It strikes me that this is a grave danger for the future.

If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?

My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.

Parental discipline, religious denunciation of bodily pleasure, and philosophic exaltation of the life of reason have all left man overtly docile, but secretly in his unconscious unconvinced, and therefore neurotic

People who had children assuming they were creating future friends were rolling the dice.

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.

They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

Cussing your daddy when he is crippled so he can't beat your teeth down your throat for it. Well, it is sire and dam in a man like a horse, and no way to get yourself a boy without there is half woman in him.