Quotes and Sayings About Parenting
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I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares
-- Abbott Eliot Kittredge -
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
-- Abraham Kaplan -
Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
-- Alan Thicke -
The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
-- Alice Walker -
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
-- Alvin Toffler -
~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~
-- Amanda Peet -
~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~
-- Angelina Jolie -
Expectations are resentments under construction.
-- Anne Lamott -
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
-- Anne Tyler -
Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.
-- Art Linkletter -
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
-- Banksy -
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
-- Barbara Bush -
What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
-- Ben Stein -
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
-- Ben Stein -
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
-- Benjamin Spock -
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
-- Benjamin Spock -
The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves - happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they have, and of all the opportunities that come their way. They will make light of any handicaps.
-- Benjamin Spock -
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
-- Benjamin Spock -
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
-- Bertrand Russell -
OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
-- Bil Keane -
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
-- Bill Ayers -
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
-- Bill Cosby -
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
-- Bill Cosby -
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
-- Bill Cosby -
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
-- Bill Cosby -
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
-- Billy Graham -
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.
-- Billy Graham
