Great Parenting Quotes

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

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

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

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.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

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

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

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

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

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.