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Parenting Quotes
"My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7."
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"When u stay behind ur children their confidence rise."
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"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."
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"There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children."
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"I would say that my parents were supportive of me."
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"Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right."
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"If you want your son or daughter to be positive. Like to enjoy life and so on and so on - focus on the positive, nature, birds, quite and fast waterfalls... If you want to be negative which will mean a killer, a slaughter focus on the negative. Kill infront of the eyes a chicken slaughter it, fast and quick... do it often, read scary horror books!"
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"My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade."
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"So much is asked of parents, and so little is given."
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"My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do."
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"The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them."
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"You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept."
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"Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts."
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"It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else " catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever."
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"My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do."
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"I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby."
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"The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror."
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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
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"The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!"
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"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
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"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."
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"Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer."
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"All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like when you're first learning to put nail polish on your right hand with your left. You can do it, but it doesn't look all that great around the cuticles."
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"First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see."
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"If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up."
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"Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath."
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"Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish."
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"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."
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"When my son was a teenager, he would use the 'poker face' tactic when I was lecturing, nagging, or suggesting. As a parent, it was maddening because I could not read his reactions! His stoicism would sometimes deflate my efforts or make me surrender in laughter, changing the subject all together."
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"So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency."
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"I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body."
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"Do not do everything for your children " teach them personal responsibility and accountability. This includes using your home environment " the kitchen, the garden, making their room/bed, chores " as training platforms. Prepare them to be independent."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?"
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"Start working on your child's mind. Start building your child's character. Raise your child as a human being, instead of raising boys and girls. Raise human beings with the religion of love in their hearts. Raise human beings with the language of compassion on their lips. Raise human beings with the color of joy on their face. Raise human beings with the force of bravery in their nerves. And these brave conscientious souls with the flames of compassion in their hearts shall one day change the course of human history."
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"Do not raise creepy crawlers my dear braveheart parents. Raise mighty humans with Himalayan strength in their veins. Give them the voice that has gone extinct in today's society. And if there is only one thing you could give to your children, then give them courage " courage to pursue their passion " courage to trample every obstacle in their path " courage to keep walking even when their heart bleeds in agony."
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"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
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"Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses."
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"When you discipline a child you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."
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"Realise your Stewardship role as a parent " you raise children to offer a quality gift to society. Even your spouse should not be treated as an object or possession you own; support them to be the best of what they were created to be. Do your part and trust God for the rest. If you have empowered them, trust them to be responsible."
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