Quotes About Growth

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

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

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

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

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

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

A father is a man who fails every day.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

The world's greatest changes are made at home.

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.

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.