Parenting Quotes

Don't sweat the small stuff doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. – Bill Klein

~ The Little Couple

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it. That is all there is for any of us.

~ Robert B. Reich

When our feet talk to us, we listen.

~ Alexander Nestoiter

How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.

~ Alfie Kohn

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: He is nothing but a boy -- a little boy!

~ Dale Carnegie

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.

~ Stewart Stafford

Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well.... Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for your child.

~ Lisa Coyne

Out of love and desire to protect our children's self-esteem, we have bulldozed every uncomfortable bump and obstacle out of the way, clearing the manicured path we hoped would lead to success and happiness. Unfortunately, in doing so we have deprived our children of the most important lessons of childhood. The setbacks, mistakes, miscalculations, and failures we have shoved out of our children's way are the very experiences that teach them how to be resourceful, persistent, innovative and resilient citizens of this world.

~ Jessica Lahey

Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.

~ Julie Lythcott-Haims

If he once failed as a father, it was a noble fail.

~ Alysia Abbott

When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.

~ Stacey Thacker

The is no better example for our children,then the one we set before them every day

~ Davin Whitehurst

If you’ve raced home after working ten-hour days to get dinner on the table every night for twenty years…you deserve more than absolution from guilt and the kindness you’d give freely to anyone else. You deserve a gold medal.

~ Linda Gray

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

~ Aimee Bender

To enjoy true, vibrant health, increased awareness, effort, and focus are required.

~ Rand Olson

Medication, surgery, and medical tests are all focused on disease, not on health. Prevention is the act of moving away from the disease. Proactivity in health is seeking a high level of wellness and acting in a way that will create that reality in your life.

~ Rand Olson

What we sometimes see as annoying, incessant questions from a child may be a plea for recognition. Maybe they do not need an answer as much as attention.

~ Rand Olson

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

~ Rand Olson

All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.

~ Heyward Bruce Ewart Iii

You truly do have the power to reach your goals.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?

~ Beverly K. Bachel

To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you’re trying to accomplish.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you’ll feel.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

It’s up to you to make your dreams real.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life—now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The biggest regrets people have aren’t about what they did, but what they didn’t do.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make

~ Natalie Corbett Sampson

. . . parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond.

~ Danielle Monsch

Wonder isn't about finding answers, it's about becoming more comfortable with questions.

~ Leigh Ann Henion

Pure, unadulterated, consistent love for God and pure, unadulterated, consistent love for others is the summation of all the law God has given us in both the Old and New Testaments. Of course, the problem is that we never obey these simple commands. We always love ourselves more than we love God or others. We are always erecting idols in our hearts and worshipping and serving them. We are always more focused on what we want and how we might get it than we are on loving Him and laying down our life for others. The law does show us the right way to live, but none of us obeys it. Not for one millisecond.Even though our children cannot and will not obey God's law, we need to teach it to them again and again. And when they tell us that they can't love God or others in this way, we are not to argue with them. We are to agree with them and tell them of their need for a Savior.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.

~ Gloria Furman

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

~ Maralee Mckee

Indra believed that the birth of each of her sons had been accompanied by a sign... With Sarva, overnight her cascading black hair showed a thick clutch of grey. He was the child she would struggle most with.

~ Rohini Mohan

Conscious Parenting on Children's Happiness and matrix of influences: 'We live surrounded by an increasingly complex matrix of impulses allowing strangers of all sorts (TV, media, Internet) interfere in our children’s mental, emotional and spiritual development. Understanding this intricate network and how does the human brain interacts with it is increasingly becoming our door to happiness and health.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...

~ Conrad Williams