Parenting Quotes - Page 4

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.