Quotes About Parenting

Who knows why our kids do what they do? All we can do is just love them." - Fenella

We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life.

Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Children need models rather than critics.

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.

That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

If you want your children to improve let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

You can't judge your parenting by the choices of your kids.

Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don't spank your child show them some attention.

My greatness shall never be measured by my actions or accomplishments, but rather by those of my son's guided by my teachings.

Character and education are the wings you can give your children and they will fly to places where ordinary people cannot go

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

As a parent, my fear is that when we die, we'll have to watch all those moments in our lives when we were short tempered with our children, all the times they needed our love and we didn't give it, all those times we were distracted or in a bad mood, and all the times we were angry or impatient. My fear is that when the time comes, I'll have to watch all those moments again. That they'll make us watch them before we can get into Heaven

even the stay-at-home mothers subjected their kids to a kind of benign neglect back then.

You know more about your child than I can ever hope to know, what advice can you give me to make a better teacher for her?

My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud.