Quotes About Understanding

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

Kindness effects more than severity.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

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

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

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.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

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

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