Parenting Quotes

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

The world's greatest changes are made at home.

A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

~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.~

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

When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.

You never put her in your heart.

~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

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

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

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

I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~

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

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

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.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

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.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Earn the respect and confidence of your children through your loving relationship with them. A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence in their social, educational, and spiritual activities and responsibilities.

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

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.