Parenting Quotes

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

Presence is more than just being there.

Everything depends on upbringing.