Children Quotes

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

~ Gilbert Highet

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

~ Martin Mull

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

~ Evan Bayh

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

~ Brené Brown

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

~ George Will

That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting style was, 'There's the TV. Go watch it. Mommy's got 10 other people to take care of.'

~ Stephen Colbert

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

~ Doug Larson

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

~ Suze Orman

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

~ Luther Burbank

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

~ Richard Louv

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

~ Todd Tiahrt

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

~ Laura Schlessinger

To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

~ Carl Honoré

Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

~ Gloria Steinem

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

~ Bill Cosby

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

~ Brené Brown

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

~ Virginia Postrel

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.

~ Mary J. Blige

My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.

~ Martin Jacques

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

~ Jane Fonda

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

~ Robert Winston

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

~ Phil Mcgraw

Having children with someone is the real bond.

~ Francesca Annis

Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.

~ Glozell

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

~ Rita Rudner

Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.

~ Kate Middleton

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

~ Adam Mansbach

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.

~ Jamie Lee Curtis

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

~ John Boehner

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

~ Reese Witherspoon

Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.

~ Bernie Siegel

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

~ Robert Orben

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

~ Robert Orben

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.

~ Susan Cain

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

~ John Sculley

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

~ Lz Granderson

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

~ Andrew Shue

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

~ Connie Sellecca