Parenting Quotes

Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting, Focus on the uniqueness of every Child.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don't Discipline them out of hatred

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

~ David W. Earle

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

~ Danny Silk

Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God.

~ Stormie Omartian

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

~ Thomas Bernhard

Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.

~ Ana Monnar

Raising children is like baking cookies at high altitudes. The recipe doesn’t work. You must open the oven door and keep checking on the cookies.

~ Margaret Aranda

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

~ Benjamin Carson

KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It’s that SIMPLE.

~ Carew Papritz

When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives.

~ Carew Papritz

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.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is vital that parents have the courage to speak up and intervene before Satan succeeds. President Boyd K. Packer has taught that “when morality is involved, we have both the right and the obligation to raise a warning voice.

~ Larry R. Lawrence

It takes courage to gather children from whatever they’re doing and kneel together as a family. It takes courage to turn off the television and the computer and to guide your family through the pages of the scriptures every day. It takes courage to turn down other invitations on Monday night so that you can reserve that evening for your family. It takes courage and willpower to avoid over-scheduling so that your family can be home for dinner.

~ Larry R. Lawrence

Courageous parenting does not always involve saying no. Parents also need courage to say yes to the counsel of modern-day prophets. Our Church leaders have counseled us to establish righteous patterns in our homes. Consider five fundamental practices that have the power to fortify our youth: family prayer, family scripture study, family home evening, family dinner together, and regular one-on-one interviews with each child.

~ Larry R. Lawrence

In these last days, what the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand.

~ Larry R. Lawrence

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The most important gift you can give your children is the importance of standing up to injustice. Children will remember moments spent with you. However, it isn't togetherness that creates humane parents and righteous kids. It is the example of integrity that a parent sets and the on going lessons they teach about compassion toward others throughout their lives. A good father or mother teaches their children that cruelty is not something you cause or ignore, rather it is the moment you suit up for war.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of me centered individuals.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting. In terms of teaching our children to dare greatly in the never enough culture, the question isn't so much Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

~ Brené Brown

Words are prophesy. Prophesy positive words into your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing “single” about a single mom.

~ Mandy Hale

If you want to know about sex don't ask your parents. They don't have any and know nothing about it. Find out yourself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.

~ J. Richard Singleton

Why is every mom's concern about sex? There are more important things in life, like school, careers, poetry, books, ice cream, or learning how to make the perfect chocolate cake. It's so damn frustrating.

~ Isabel Quintero

Love with your whole heart, and never be sorry you did.--tdf

~ Tonya D. Floyd

My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children.

~ Melissa B. Kruger

The mother is the child's first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. NO?

~ Brenda M. Mcgraw

More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering selves. Our experiencing selves tell researchers that we prefer doing the dishes -- or napping, or shopping, or answering emails -- to spending time with our kids. (I am very specifically referring here to Kahneman's study of 909 Texas women.) But our remembering selves tell researchers that no one -- and nothing -- provides us with so much joy as our children. It may not be the happiness we live day to day, but it's the happiness we think about, the happiness we summon and remember, the stuff that makes up our life-tales.

~ Jennifer Senior

Teach your children this from a very early age: Everybody in this world is different, you're going to meet people who don't look like you, think like you, or even feel like you. This world is filled with so many different colours and shapes, so many different thoughts and feelings. You should never expect anyone else to be the same as you and you should never expect yourself to be the same as anybody else. But everyone can have so much fun learning about each other and celebrating one another and when you are all able to do this, the world will begin to change for the better.

~ C. Joybell C.

Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels, or very boring people.

~ C. Joybell C.

Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

~ Debra Ginsberg

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

~ Haruki Murakami

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

~ Walt Disney Company

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

~ Plato

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

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

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

~ Joni Eareckson Tada