Quotes About Children

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

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

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.

~[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.~

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

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?

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

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

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

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

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

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

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

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

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.

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

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

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

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