Parent Quotes - Page 23

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that'. The whole thing baffles me.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

My parents were hoarders before hoarding was cool

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies.

If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.

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

Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.