Parent Quotes - Page 42

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

~When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side - every night. Because one day you won't be able to, and it's going to happen really fast.~

If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.

One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.

My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines.

My parents always told me I could do anything, but never told me how long it would take

Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.

The mistakes that I made I made because I drank too much. I don't think that's going to happen any more. Am I going to make mistakes as a parent? Sadly, every day. I'm looking around for the perfect parent and I haven't seen one yet.

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

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.