Parenting Quotes And Sayings

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“By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments”
– Eileen Kennedy-Moore

“If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up”
– Charles H. Spurgeon

“There is nothing that moves a loving father‘s soul quite like his child’s cry”
– Joni Eareckson Tada

“Raise your children to love and embrace others. Tell them they are beautiful; they may grow up to be stars one day, and “beautiful” will never mean as much in a magazine as it will coming from you”
– Kaiden Blake

“We pretend that we know our children, because it’s easier than admitting the truth–from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It’s far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it’s safer to say you’re a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you”
– Jodi Picoult

“No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless”
– Isabella Macdonald Alden

“One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form”
– Anne Fadiman

“It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car window”
– Erma Bombeck

“And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks”
– Catherine Gilbert Murdock

“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them”
– Frank Clark

“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we’re reading. The competition isn’t just over who’s a good mother–it’s over who’s the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids’ needs before their own, period. The best mothers are the main caregivers. For the best mothers, their kids are the center of the universe. The best mothers always smile. They always understand. They are never tired. They never lose their temper. They never say, “Go to the neighbor’s house and play while Mommy has a beer.” Their love for their children is boundless, unflagging, flawless, total. Mothers today cannot just respond to their kids’ needs, they must predict them–and with the telepathic accuracy of Houdini. They must memorize verbatim the books of all the child-care experts and know which approaches are developmentally appropriate at different ages. They are supposed to treat their two-year-olds with “respect.” If mothers screw up and fail to do this on any given day, they should apologize to their kids, because any misstep leads to permanent psychological and/or physical damage. Anyone who questions whether this is the best and the necessary way to raise kids is an insensitive, ignorant brute. This is just common sense, right”
– Susan J. Douglas

“If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it”
– Jodi Picoult

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy”
– Oscar Wilde

“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”
– Henry Cloud

“An environment-based education movement–at all levels of education–will help students realize that school isn’t supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world”
– Richard Louv

“Sadie,” he said forlornly, “when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children’s”
– Rick Riordan

“I gave you life. You’re wasting it”
– Stephenie Meyer

“I’ll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,’ she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. ‘I’ll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She’ll get her shots, and she’ll get her braces. We’ll start a college fund next week. I’ll tell her I love her every damn day.’ If that wasn’t a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn’t imagine what a better one could be”
– Charlaine Harris

“Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle”
– Gretchen Rubin

“In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.”
– Thomas Stephen Szasz

“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home”
– Phyllis Diller

“I worry about exposing him to bands like Journey, the appreciation of which will surely bring him nothing but the opprobrium of his peers. Though he has often been resistant – children so seldom know what is good for them – I have taught him to appreciate all the groundbreaking musicmakers of our time – Big Country, Haircut 100, Loverboy – and he is lucky for it. His brain is my laboratory, my depository. Into it I can stuff the books I choose, the television shows, the movies, my opinion about elected officials, historical events, neighbors, passersby. He is my twenty-four-hour classroom, my captive audience, forced to ingest everything I deem worthwhile. He is a lucky, lucky boy! And no one can stop me”
– Dave Eggers

“Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let them do it. It’ll be OK”
– Randy Pausch

“It’s a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they’ll be standing there beside you, with you”
– Erik Erikson

“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”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe”
– Peggy O’Mara

“Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it”
– Russell Baker

“There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children”
– Marianne Williamson

“Don’t go overboard in praising required behavior: ‘We have only done our duty’ (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior”
– Henry Cloud

“The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses”
– Richard Louv

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