Parenting Quotes

Brothers and sisters, if your spouse doesn’t feel good about something, show respect for those feelings. When you take the easy way out by saying and doing nothing, you may be enabling destructive behavior.

~ Larry R. Lawrence

I never thought the brightest smile would come from a mouth without teeth.

~ Iván Zapién

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

~ Jim Bouton

In order to break your child’s negative cycle, you must first break your own cycle of negative perception. You must take on a strengths-based perspective. Look for the good, which in some cases may require you to get creative. Do this even when it’s hard. This sends a powerful message to children even when they are behaving poorly. You are sending the message that you believe in them, you see that there is more to them than their bad behavior, and you are painting a future picture of what they can become.

~ Daniel Bates

Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren't a perfect parent.

~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

He's taking the change well? She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?

~ Frank Herbert

I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.

~ A.d. Aliwat

Mature, healthy people need other people; they don't isolate themselves...Needing love isn't being immature. Rather, it gives us the energy we need to go out and slay our dragons.

~ Henry Cloud

For your sake, jewel,I am glad at soul I have no other child;For thy escape would teach me tyranny,To hang clogs on them.

~ William Shakespeare

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

~ H.w. Brands

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

~ Salman Rushdie

Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bush's mother knew enough to be in position with her children were ready to talk. She waited up not just to ensure safety but to make the most of the moment of excited emotions. The next morning, they would congeal into polite, one-word answers.

~ H.w. Brands

Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace.

~ Élisabeth Badinter

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Setting boundaries isn't an alternative to loving your child. It is a means of loving her.

~ Henry Cloud

Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more than you do her mediocre, stumbling parts.

~ Henry Cloud

My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

It is not natural to challenge the existing beliefs breaking patterns, and yet once you manage, you create a space for the new patterns to form, the ones that are filled with Love, Acceptance, Knowledge, and you give yourself & your kids a chance to Spiritually Grow.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.

~ Sherry Turkle

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.

~ Gary Chapman

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

~ Kevin Deyoung

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

~ Victor Hugo

Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit.

~ Ellen Hopkins

We may not have had the same experiences as other parents, but I’m okay with that now.

~ Stacy A King

Parenting fucked you up.

~ Abigail Barnette

I had come to realize that you must do what you must for your children, even it if called for the sacrifice of your very soul.

~ Lynn Cullen

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

~ Victor Hugo

Adolescents need tremendous support as they go about the task of figuring out their identities, their future selves. Too often what they get is intrusion. Intrusion and support are two fundamentally different processes: support is about the needs of the child, intrusion is about the needs of the parent.

~ Madelibe Levine

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

~ Sherry Turkle

Fond mother, you that will never correct a child, hear the charge, and let it thrill through your heart, exciting emotions of horror, you are a hater of your child; your foolish love is infanticide; your cruel embraces are hugging your child to death. In not correcting him, you are committing sin of the heaviest kind, and your own wickedness, in not correcting him, will at last punish yourself.

~ John Angell James

Ah, cruel parents indeed, who neglect the religious education of their children; more cruel in some respects than Herod; he slew the bodies of children, these murder souls; he murdered the children of others, these murder their own; he employed the agency of his servants, these do the work of slaughter themselves.

~ John Angell James

soon he’ll reach for her because she’s beautiful, and she’s his wife. If she cringes away from him because you’ve convinced her he isn’t good enough for her, how will that make him feel? If she submits to him out of obligation, how will that make her feel?What if she approaches him and later is ashamed of wanting her own husband because he isn’t good enough for her? It’ll be hard for a marriage to last under those conditions. This isn’t what you want for Susan. Forgive him. Accept him. You’ll be doing your daughter a favor.

~ Elaine Cantrell

Do not give up when touching the Door of Awareness, you meet its Mindfulness Magic, but let it open wide giving your family a possibility to Create Reality of Your Dreams.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović

Children are mirrors; they will always show you exactly what is going on inside of you. Each phase of their growth is an opportunity to heal your own pain, to go deeper inside yourself and become more truly human

~ Vimala Mcclure

Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides.

~ Jamie Raser

the balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option.

~ Peter Hitchens

I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.

~ Eloisa James

The progress of a struggling teen has less to do with the application of specific parenting techniques than with the parents’ own patient, persistent efforts to construct relationships with their son or daughter.

~ Marian Sandmaier

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults, and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

~ Thomas Szasz