Quotes About Parenting

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.