Parenting Quotes - Page 11

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

Parenting @ a higher level of consciousness:1st love self so deeply that when ur child misbehaves U do not have 2 react @LoveNever_Fails When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future!

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

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

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave me, such as love and friendship.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and everything has to be put in its place - [the kids] live here as much as we do. You come into our house and a giant elephant and lion are welcoming you. We have toys and things everywhere.~

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

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.