Parenting Quotes - Page 5

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.

The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidence in themselves and happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they do have and of all the opportunities that come their way.

In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you.- Desmond Tutu In the end, kids won't remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.