Parenting Quotes - Page 2

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No...Unfortunately, many, if not most, of today's children suffer from Vitamin N deficiency. They've been overindulged by well-meaning parents who've given them far too much of what they want and far too little of what they truly need.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality