Parenting Quotes

Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress.

~ David W. Earle

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

~ Carla H. Krueger

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

~ Robin Hobb

Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being pregnant

~ Nicholas Sparks

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.

~ Moffat Machingura

Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.

~ Jeff Benedict

We’ll never solve the problems we don’t talk about.

~ Justin Young

Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy...And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220

~ Rainbow Rowell

As children we are taught, Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me! As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation or verbal assault. Ah, the naked leading the blind.

~ Bryan Oftedahl

Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.

~ Sydney Strand

As children we are taught, Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me! As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation. Ah, the naked leading the blind.

~ Bryan Oftedahl

Teachable moments are any time that you use situations to dialogue with your child about what's going on- what he or she has seen, heard, or done. As this passage from Deuteronomy (Deut. 6:6-7) describes, teachable moments can be any time you and your child are together.

~ Kara G. Durbin

There’s one thing you can start doing right now that will change how you communicate with any young human: Remember what it’s like to be one.

~ Justin Young

Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless.

~ T Jay Taylor

How can I help this son of mine see when I can't see? The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?

~ Ann Voskamp

Parents who always whisper the word sex unintentionally tell their kids, I don't want to talk about this. Get your answers elsewhere.

~ Michael Rittenhouse

Helicopter parents. Before I started at Pirriwee Public, I thought it was an exaggeration, this thing about parents being overly involved with their kids. I mean, my mum and dad loved me, they were, like, interested in me when I was growing up in the nineties, but they weren't, like, obsessed with me.

~ Liane Moriarty

Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute, you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.

~ Kelly Corrigan

The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.

~ Kathleen Silber

Well, we spent enough on gymnastics.''Christ, did we,' said Maureen. 'So many lessons.'So many lessons, it was true: art and music and ice-skating; Lily's every fleeting interest enthusiastically, abundantly indulged. Not to mention the many more practical investments--chemistry tutoring when she struggled, English enrichment when she excelled, SAT courses to propel her to the school and then, presumably, the career of her dreams. What costs had been sunk, what objections had been suppressed, to deliver their daughter into the open and waiting arms of her beautiful life.

~ Jennifer Dubois

Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.

~ Liz Becker

Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.

~ Dr. Linda Barboa

Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.

~ Carson Mccullers

He was a bad, bad bastard. He abused the privilege of being a cunt, as my old Da would say.’ I smiled, picturing the cozy fireside scene of young son on father’s knee being inducted into the world of abusive epithets.

~ Craig Russell

You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents.

~ Dr. Linda Barboa

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

~ Liz Becker

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for your child.

~ Kara G. Durbin

Encourage obeying all the way, right away, and in a happy way.

~ Kara G. Durbin

Young children especially need the visual reinforcement of seeing you turn to Scripture for wisdom.

~ Kara G. Durbin

Once you put yourself on the lookout for teachable moments, you'll find them everywhere!

~ Kara G. Durbin

It doesn't take a man to have a child, it takes a man to raise a child.

~ Gonzobilly

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.

~ George R.r. Martin

A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

~ Carson Mccullers

Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the happiness and peace he had known without the boy.

~ Hermann Hesse

Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.

~ Joseph Fielding Smith

By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you end up inadvertently extending the introverted existence of a teenager deep into middle age.

~ Danielle Crittenden

If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.

~ Seanan Mcguire