Quotes About Parenting

~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.

Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.