Parenting Quotes - Page 8

~I got pregnant, and I was like, 'Oh God, it worked! Oh no!' Chris [Ivery, her husband] and I were super happy, then I got terrified! Will I know how to do everything right? Of course, nobody does everything right, but as long as your baby is the priority, that's the best you can do.~

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

~When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side - every night. Because one day you won't be able to, and it's going to happen really fast.~

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.

Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child's capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well. They are so precious. Let them know. Call upon our Heavenly Father for help as you care for their needs each day and as you deal with the challenges which inevitably come with parenthood. You need more than your own wisdom in rearing them.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.