Quotes About Parenting

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?