Parenting Quotes

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any.

~ Benjamin Lotter

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

~ Benjamin Lotter

It was an earthquake, tearing at the sons of America, trying to swallow them up. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful sons, that women had reared, had kissed and screamed at, and that fathers had stared intently in their cots, to see themselves in the wondrous mirrors of their babies.

~ Sebastian Barry

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

~ Lois Leveen

Parenting, similar to aging, is not for the faint of heart. It is a sacred journey, filled with learning experiences for both parties, not all of which are easy. This journey requires that we are brave, honest, noble and resilient. Love for our children carries us through this journey and encourages us to feel more, give more, and be more than we ever thought we were capable of.

~ Jeanmarie Wilson

I needed something else, some kind of juice.He gave me a hooked-eyebrow glance and took a showy swig of the water. Mmm, he said, smacking his lips. Water-juice. It's fantastic.

~ Norman Ollestad

Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

~ Benjamin Lotter

But the smell of the hospital, the sting of those overhead lights in the night, the snippets of conversations I had overheard, stayed with me and marked the beginning of how I came to know what a bold and dangerous thing parenthood is. Risk was not an event we had survived, but the place where we now lived.

~ Kelly Corrigan

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

~ P.a. Speers

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

~ Anita Diamant

Kids will remember less what we did for them and more how we spoke and reacted to them.

~ Roma Khetarpal

We honor our kids most when, while we guide or discipline them, we give them this gift of unconditional love by accepting them and respecting them for who they are, first and foremost.

~ Roma Khetarpal

Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don't spank your child show them some attention.

~ Alcurtis Turner

One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

If we, as mothers, are not careful we can begin to find our identity in our children and their behavior

~ Sue Detweiler

We are our own children's perfect parents, and within us lie all the simple, yet profound qualities of inner perfection.

~ Roma Khetarpal

Most important jobs of a parent: unconditional love, comfort and protection, and a solid platform and values for future success

~ M. James Airey

Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the rest of their lives. Children gradually adopt an enduring assumption that everything will turn out well, or badly, depending on their childhood.

~ David Brooks

But no one is easier to delude than a parent, they see only what they wish to see.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

It is as hard for our children to believe that we are not omnipotent as it is for us to know it, as parents. But that knowledge is necessary as the first step in the reassessment of power as something other than might, age, privilege, or the lack of fear. It is an important step for a boy, whose societal destruction begins when he is forced to believe that he can only be strong if he doesn't feel, or if he wins.

~ Audre Lorde

Education is the best gift my parent gave me.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ethan’s voice was choked. “I realize now, what my father felt. When I left home. He must have felt as if everything was ending. That everything he knew was finishing. I wasn't even aware of what he was going through, how it felt for him. I was so caught up in the excitement of moving out and having a job that would buy me a car. I was so eager to leave. His heart was breaking, and I totally missed it. I was completely unaware that his whole world was changing too. But for him it wasn't gaining, it was losing. He was losing part of himself. The part of his life that had focused on me and my mother for seventeen years was ending, and I never even noticed.”For a moment, Leo thought Ethan was about to ask him to stay. If he does, I will, Leo thought.Ethan took a deep breath. “But hard as it is. It can’t be stopped. Can’t be sidestepped. No matter how much we want to or how fearful the future looks, we can’t stay frozen in place. You can go forward or you can try to hold on. I've seen people that were afraid to let go, that never committed to their life. You can feel the desperate regret emanate from them. They know they missed something, but instead of jumping on the next train, they keep looking back for the one they missed.

~ Tom Deaderick

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

~ Audre Lorde

You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion.

~ Robert Fritz

We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul’s inspired desire for improvement.

~ Rand Olson

If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life.

~ Rand Olson

Health is the ability to be fully and consciously aware of all that contributes to your life experience and to effectively exist in that environment. It then means you see yourself as you really are.

~ Rand Olson

As we mature and develop awareness to match our potential, our ability to enjoy full health is realized. As we enjoy this fruit, we sow the seeds of greatness in our children.

~ Rand Olson

Health is not a physical accomplishment but the manifestation of our awareness of who we are and integrity in living out of that knowledge.

~ Rand Olson

More of anything only makes us more of what we already are. If we are happy, it can bring more happiness. If we are depressed, it will make us more depressed.

~ Rand Olson

Among the most sacred gifts you can give your child is the gift of health. This gift is best given by example. Dr. Rand Olson

~ Rand Olson

Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.

~ Rand Olson

Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

~ Rand Olson

We seem to need the motivation of pain or discomfort to drive us from our current manner of thinking and being to a higher level of reality.

~ Rand Olson

We seem to take notice of our body only when health is lacking. With that lack of recognition comes a lack of motivation and incentive to stretch.

~ Rand Olson

We rarely improve our habits and traits while floating on the placid pool of ease and comfort.

~ Rand Olson

With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

~ Beth Ann Fennelly

Whether you're explaining where pets go when they die or teaching your child to recycle, your philosophies have ramifications. For the rest of history, echos of your voice will be heard.

~ Beth Ann Fennelly

Max is a marvel to us. He will never have to come out because he will never have been kept in. Even though he has a mom and a dad, they made sure from the beginning to tell him that it didn't have to be a mom and a dad. It could be a mom and a mom, a dad and a dad, just a mom, or just a dad. When Max's early affections became clear, he didn't think twice about them. He doesn't see it as defining him. It is just a part of his definition.

~ David Levithan

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

~ Bruce D. Perry