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Quotes About Parenting

Meaningful quotes about parenting

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~Homer

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. ~Hodding Carter, Jr.

My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time. ~Karen Brown

A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided. ~Robert Brault
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening. ~Robert Brault

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman

If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~Gloria Steinem, New York Times, 26 August 1971

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. ~E.W. Howe

Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. ~Raymond Duncan

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry. ~Bill Cosby

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.


Celebrating Fathers Day with inspiring quotes about parenthood, love and family

New Beginnings And Starting Over

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
- Dolly Parton

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White