Quotes About Parenting

Everything depends on upbringing.

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short.

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.