Quotes About Parenting

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill!

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

I've got a cure for mental health issue. Spank your children more.

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.

Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

Dear children, don't eat anything healthy at home, just keep eating those hamburgers

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.