Parenting Quotes:

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.

source: Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Children, Dad, Parenting, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

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.

topic: Children, Parenting, Childhood

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.

source: "Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care". 8th Edition,

topic: Children, Growing Up, Parenting

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.

source: Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

topic: Jobs, Children, Parenting, Rearing A Child, Child Rearing

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Learning, Knowledge, Parenting

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

- Bil Keane

topic: Mother, Children, Parenting, Funny Mother, Funny Motherhood

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

source: "An Unconditional Embrace". Interview with Gabriel Lyon, www.tolerance.org. Spring 1998.

topic: Kids, Parenting, Trying, Inspirational Parenting, Being A Parent

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

topic: Family, Children, Parenting

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.

source: Twitter post from Nov 03, 2009

topic: Family, Parenting, Justice, Peace And Quiet, Wonderful Parents

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.

topic: Family, Kids, Parenting, Referee, Parenthood Funny

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

topic: Family, Children, Parenting

- Billy Graham

topic: Family, Children, Parenting, Respectability, Great Parenting

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

topic: Home, School, Parenting, Self Contained, Simple Pleasures

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

- Bob Filner

topic: Home, Exercise, Parenting, Parental Involvement, Child Obesity

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

- Brad Meltzer

source: Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.200, Hachette UK

topic: Parenting, Parent, Matter, Great Parents, Love My Parents

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

- Brené Brown

source: Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.39, Penguin

topic: Courage, Parenting, Empathy, Daring Greatly

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Children, Parenting, Blessing, Great Parents, Decide Upon

~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we are responsible to anybody but our kids and ourselves.~

- Brooke Shields

topic: Girl, Kids, Parenting, Overbearing

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

- C. Everett Koop

topic: Responsibility, Parenting, Generations, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

- Carl Honore

topic: Sports, Kids, Parenting, Competitive Sports, Product Development

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

- Carl Jung

topic: Children, Knowledge, Parenting, Fidgeting, Great Parenting

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

- Carl Jung

topic: Parenting, Parent, Tragedy

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

- Carl Jung

topic: Inspirational, Children, Parenting

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

- Carol Klein

topic: Son, Parenting, Males

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Children, Parenting, World, Injustice In The World, Great Expectations Important

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

- Christy Turlington

topic: Children, Kids, Parenting, Smokers

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

topic: Parenting, Opiates, Parenthood

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

- Cindy Crawford

topic: Inspiring, Baby, Parenting, Huge Changes

If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their appreciation of their obligation to others.

- Clarence Page

topic: Appreciation, Children, Parenting

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

- Clive Owen

topic: Family, Inspiring, Parenting, Family Comes First

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

- Clive Owen

topic: Kids, Parenting, Perfect

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

- Coretta Scott King

topic: Inspiring, Kings, Parenting, Womanhood

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

- Courteney Cox

topic: Daughter, Parenting, Age

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

- Dale Archer

source: "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

topic: Children, Parenting, Class, Adopting

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

- David Bly

topic: Children, Parenting, Want, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. - Robert Fulghum Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.

- David Bly

source: "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

topic: Children, Parenting, Worry

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

- Debra Winger

topic: Parenting, Age, Roles

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Children, Parenting, Giving, Happy Children, Autonomy

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

- Dennis Miller

topic: Jobs, Parenting, Important

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

- Diane Keaton

topic: Children, Believe, Parenting, Humbling Experiences

Children Learn What They Live

- Dorothy Nolte

topic: Children, Parenting

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

- Dorothy Nolte

topic: Children, Acceptance, Parenting, Love My Parents, Parent Child

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

- Edie Falco

topic: Running, Parenting, Phones, Mirroring

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard: Olympians”

topic: Children, Parenting, Parent, Parents Love

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

- Elias Canetti

topic: Children, Parenting, Practice

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

- Eliot Spitzer

topic: Parenting, Hazards, Incentives, Moral Hazard, Bad Behavior

~I got pregnant, and I was like, 'Oh God, it worked! Oh no!' Chris [Ivery, her husband] and I were super happy, then I got terrified! Will I know how to do everything right? Of course, nobody does everything right, but as long as your baby is the priority, that's the best you can do.~

- Ellen Pompeo

topic: Baby, Husband, Parenting, Super Happy

~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~

- Emma Thompson

topic: Kids, Parenting, Thinking, Bad Manners

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

- Emo Philips

topic: Children, Humorous, Parenting

Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: Sorry, Kids, Parenting

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: Parenting, Inspire, Difficult

~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~

- Faith Hill

topic: Children, Mean, Parenting

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

- Felix Adler

source: FELIX ADLER (1880). “CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES”

topic: Family, School, Parenting, Family First, Love And Family

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Children, Parenting, Important, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

- Frank Pittman

source: "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

topic: Children, Father, Parenting, Being A Father, Perfect Parents

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

- Franklin P. Adams

topic: Children, Parenting, Instance, Having Kids, Inspirational Parenting

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Children, Parenting, Moon

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

- Freeman A. Hrabowski III

topic: Parenting, Two, People

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

- Gabriela Mistral

topic: Education, Children, Parenting

~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and all of that. But then I realize it just means that I have so much time left to enjoy my kids. And it really does go by so quickly.~

- Geena Davis

topic: Mean, Kids, Parenting, Time Left

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

- George Eliot

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting, I Love My Mother, Inspirational Motherhood

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

- Glennon Melton

topic: Inspiration, Kids, Parenting, Being A Parent, Raising Children

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Responsibility, Parenting, Parent

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

- Grant Hill

topic: Parenting, Appreciate, Littles

Say â€œnoâ€ only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, â€œAll severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

- Gretchen Rubin

topic: Sleep, Parenting, Feet

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

- Haim Ginott

topic: Hope, Wisdom, Parenting

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

- Haim Ginott

topic: Children, Parenting, Discipline

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

- Hanna Rosin

topic: Baby, Parenting, Emotional, Attachment Parenting

~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and everything has to be put in its place - [the kids] live here as much as we do. You come into our house and a giant elephant and lion are welcoming you. We have toys and things everywhere.~

- Heidi Klum

topic: Kids, Parenting, Museums

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

- Henry Cloud

source: FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Dec 22, 2016

topic: Inspirational, Pain, Parenting, People Changing, You've Changed

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

- Henry Cloud

topic: Children, Pride, Parenting

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Children, Heart, Parenting, Happy Children, You Hurt Me

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Education, Children, Parenting, Inconsistency

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Mothers Day, Mother, Parenting, Mother Care, Mother Proverbs

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

- Isabelle Huppert

topic: Mom, Dad, Parenting

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

- Isocrates

source: Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

topic: Children, Parenting, Parent

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Teacher, Children, Parenting, Protector

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Parenting, Men, Space, Navigate

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

- Jackie Kennedy

source: Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

topic: Children, Motherhood, Parenting, Joys Of Motherhood, Single Parent

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience andunderstanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

- Jane Clayson Johnson

topic: Children, Character, Parenting, Parenthood Funny, Valuable Lessons

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

- Jane Goodall

topic: Children, Fun, Parenting, Having Children, Infant

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...

- Jeffrey Eugenides

topic: Parenting, World, Virgin Suicides

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

- Jennifer Aniston

topic: Parenting, Two, Age

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

- Jennifer Aniston

topic: Jobs, Parenting, Earth, Hardest Job

I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave me, such as love and friendship.

- Jennifer Love Hewitt

topic: Mom, Kids, Parenting

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

- Jessica Simpson

topic: Parenting, Trying, Mold

I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

- Jessica Valenti

topic: Lying, Parenting, Thinking

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Educational, Parenting, Causes

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

- Jim Morrison

topic: Children, Parenting, Progress, Loving Parents, Parental Love

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

- Joan Jett

topic: Parenting, World, Taught

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Motherhood, Parenting, Thank God

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Mother, Parenting, Motherhood

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

- Jodie Foster

topic: Parenting, Important, Love And Respect

~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~

- Jodie Foster

topic: School, Parenting, Boys

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

- John Leguizamo

topic: Kids, Parenting, Years

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright...

topic: Parenting, Night, Wow

I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.

topic: Parenting, Doors, Healthy, Sean, Feeling Depressed

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

topic: Growing Up, Son, Parenting, Sean, Motorbike

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

topic: Growing Up, Parenting, Want

- John Locke

topic: Philosophical, Parenting, Bitterness, Water Fountain, Parents Love

Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No...Unfortunately, many, if not most, of today's children suffer from Vitamin N deficiency. They've been overindulged by well-meaning parents who've given them far too much of what they want and far too little of what they truly need.

- John Rosemond

topic: Children, Character, Parenting, Deficiency, Nutrients

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..

- John Steinbeck

topic: Mother, Children, Parenting

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

- Jonas Salk

topic: Children, Parenting, Wings, Roots And Wings

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

- Josh Billings

topic: Communication, Parenting, Insperational, Refutation, Silence Is Golden

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

- Jourdan Dunn

source: "Jourdan Dunn Opens Up About Son’s Illness, Being A Single Mother". I.D. Magazine, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2011.

topic: Children, Parenting, Unconditional Love

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

- Joyce Brothers

topic: Family, Parenting, Looks

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

- Joyce Brothers

topic: Parenting

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

- Julia Roberts

topic: Mother, Parenting, Thinking, Vantage Point

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

- Jurgen Prochnow

topic: Children, Parenting, Firsts

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

- Justine Larbalestier

topic: Jobs, Growing Up, Parenting

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

- Kamisese Mara

source: Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand, July 26, 1999.

topic: Fun, Hard Work, Parenting

~My favorite thing about my son is that he comes home from school and the clothes go flying! Like, clothes off, right down to the undies.~

- Kate Hudson

topic: Home, School, Parenting, Undies

~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~

- Katie Holmes

topic: Mom, Daughter, Parenting

~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~

- Kelli Williams

topic: Husband, Kids, Parenting

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

- Kenny G

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Parenting, Boys, My Boys

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time

topic: Children, Parenting, Trying

What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this

topic: Children, Parenting, Giving, Best Gift

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

topic: Kids, Parenting, Ability To Love, Innate, Love Unconditionally

The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them

topic: Kindness, Kids, Parenting, Random Acts Of Kindness

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?

topic: Children, Heart, Parenting

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

topic: Kids, Parenting, Action

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you.- Desmond Tutu In the end, kids won't remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.

topic: Children, Parenting, Thinking

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

topic: Kids, Parenting, Games

The best gift is giving from your heart

topic: Kids, Parenting, Needs

When talking w/kids its not what we say but how we say it! Think about your tone of voice & non-verbal communication. When talking to my kids I can get them to listen better by not talking down to them, but talking to them at eyeball level

topic: Heart, Parenting, Giving, Best Gift

You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious

topic: Communication, Kids, Parenting, Eyeballs, Verbal Communication

Parenting @ a higher level of consciousness:1st love self so deeply that when ur child misbehaves U do not have 2 react @LoveNever_Fails When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future!

topic: Revenge, Kids, Parenting

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

topic: Children, Parenting, Self, Higher Level

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

topic: Kids, Parenting, Love Is, Undivided Attention, Undivided Love

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Beautiful, Mother, Parenting, Scrapbooking, Beautiful Mother And Daughter

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Dream, Children, Parenting, Love Your Children, Child At Heart

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Children, Parenting, Arrows, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

- King Edward VIII

source: Look 5 Mar. 1957

topic: Children, Parenting, America, Parent Child, Funny Parenting

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

- Krister Stendahl

topic: Educational, Parenting, Thinking, Lack Of Knowledge

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

- Laura Schlessinger

topic: Relationship, Children, Parenting, Given A Chance, Parent Child Relationship

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

- Lee Corso

topic: Character, Parenting, People, Broadcasters

Everything depends on upbringing.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Parenting, Parent, Inspire

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

- Lewis Mumford

topic: Children, Parenting, Cutting, Parental Love, Cords

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

- Lin Yutang

topic: Mother, Parenting, Rights, Inspirational Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

- Lisa Alther

source: Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.362, Open Road Media

topic: Children, Parenting, Issues, Grown Children

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

- Lisa Gardner

source: Lisa Gardner (2010). “Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel”, p.87, Bantam

topic: Parenting, Fighting, Thinking

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

- Lisa Whelchel

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mom, Party, Parenting, Slumber Party

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

- Liv Tyler

topic: Son, Parenting, Age

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

- Louisa May Alcott

topic: Children, Parenting, Effort

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Children, Home, Parenting, Parents Home, Funny Parenting

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

- Luther Burbank

topic: Weed, Children, Parenting, Concrete Jungle

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

- Lydia Sigourney

topic: Children, Parenting, Strive

Presence is more than just being there.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Funny Relationship, Parenting, Focus, Just Being There

~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~

- Marcia Cross

topic: Struggle, Parenting, Laughing, Yes And No, Power Struggle

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

source: Attributed in "Words of Wisdom" edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, (p. 58), 1990.

topic: Family, Children, Parenting, Happy Children, Montessori

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

topic: Education, Children, Parenting, Untapped Potential, Infinite Potential

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

topic: Children, Parenting, Men