Quotes About Parenting

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.

The challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in.

Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.

Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.