Parenting Quotes

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

~ Jeannette Walls

My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.

~ Karen Fowler

There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is—the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It’s too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved into her dorm in time for freshman orientation. It’s been marked on the kitchen calendar for weeks—the expiration date on her childhood.

~ Susan Wiggs

New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi.

~ Bill Maher

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

~ Jeannette Walls

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

~ Jeannette Walls

Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring, 'Mine pot! Mine pot!

~ Jennifer Egan

While you may be able to keep your son Jimmy from owning [a gun], if you try to talk him out of wanting one, you are up against a pretty strong argument: You mean I shouldn't want a device that grants me power and identity, makes me feel dangerous and safe at the same time, instantly makes me the dominant male, and connects me to my evolutionary essence? Come on, Mom, get real!

~ Gavin De Becker

I also saw that theologically speaking the whole idea of a smacking is not congruent with the teaching revealed in the gospel of Jesus Christ. God sent His Son into the world to save the world so they would not have to suffer for their own sins, but parents today punish their children and make them undergo the horrors of punishment for even the most minor of infractions. The idea of mercy is seemingly not applied at all. When parents' sin, they ask God to forgive them, repent and know they are forgiven. When children sin, they are judged, tried, condemned and punished.

~ Samuel Martin

A child may be spoiled by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

~ Garry Chapman

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

~ John Burnham Schwartz

The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would fight tigers barehanded, climb down cliffs, throw myself in the path of a speeding car, and even do calculus again if I needed to, for this child.

~ Kiran Manral

Unless there was an open heart, and caring hands, and listening ears, the children will not be able to correct their steps alone, or overcome their wrong habits that still need their parents’ efforts, patience and big and continuous support.

~ Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

~ Elaine N. Aron

The most important question I ask myself as a parent is this. How can I best help my children be fully themselves and happy with who they are in the world, however they show up.

~ Lehla Eldridge

More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi – more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Force your kids to pursue success and they shall be drowned into the abyss of characterlessness, but let them pursue excellence and they shall rise as glorious Gods.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Human making is our mission, but if you break the very soul of the would-be humans, then there will be no human to raise.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Let your child be the torch of truth and they shall shine over the entirety of the human society brightening even the darkest corners.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when the life you create becomes the help in the lives of countless other humans.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Reject the fearmongering. Adopt best practices. Slow down.

~ Jane Scott

A kid is what you feed it,plus from that what can be gathered.

~ Will Advise

Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?

~ Sarah Perry

They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it when I have children of my own. They say I would understand it when I go through the experience myself. It is not easy to raise children into adults. There are so many things that could go wrong.

~ Marcella Purnama

...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

~ Leo Tolstoy

She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again for her children.

~ Rhian J. Martin

One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the trees. I pray to the wind that he will grow old and die well.

~ Jessica Bates

Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It’s called being an example.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the result is the opposite of what you hope and dream for. This seemed so unfair.

~ Jeffery Deaver

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.

~ Bruce Lansky