Quotes About Parenting

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

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.