Parenting Quotes - Page 6

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Don't try to be perfect. Life isn't; no one is. Use mistakes and mishaps as opportunities to grow tolerance and to teach. There is such a thing as happy accidents. And love, love, love and listen, listen, listen.