Parenting Quotes - Page 9

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

The best gift is giving from your heart

The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~