Parent Child Quotes:

Children need models rather than critics.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Positive, Education, Children, Parent Child, Wonderful Parents

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

- Dorothy Nolte

topic: Children, Approval, Early Childhood, Parent Child, Child Development

If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

- Diana Loomans

topic: Running, Stars, Children, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

- Bette Davis

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Birthday, Family, Christmas, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie, Happy Children, Great Parents

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

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Family, Abby, Happy Children

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

- Roger Moore

topic: Education, Children, Home, Parent Child, Children And Love

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

- William Feather

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Inspirational Motherhood, Inspirational Mothers

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Family, Inspiring, Children, Happy Children, Kid At Heart

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

- Frederick Douglass

source: "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Happy Children, Inspirational Children

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

- Thomas Bray

topic: Children, Parenting, Atmosphere, Inspirational Parenting, Spoiled Children

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

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

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

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

- Benjamin Spock

source: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

topic: Mother, Baby, Children, Inspirational Baby, Good Mother

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Children, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

topic: Life, Motivational, Family, Joy Of Learning, Kid At Heart

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Courage, Children, Dark, Parent Child, Parenthood Funny

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Funny, Motivational, Family, Leaving Home, Parent Child

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Inspirational, Life, Relationship, Inspirational Parenting, Lack Of Integrity

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

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

- Frank Pittman

topic: Children, Parent, Ends, Being A Parent, Parent Child

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

- Graham Greene

source: The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Spiritual, Joys Of Childhood, Kid At Heart

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

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Children, Needs, Way, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

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

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

- Dorothy Nolte

source: "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.

topic: Children, Kids, Parenting, I Love My Children, I Love My Kids

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

- Joyce Maynard

source: Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

topic: Family, Mother, Children, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

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

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

- Gary Smalley

source: Gary Smalley, John T. Trent (1995). “Leaving the Light On: Building the Memories That Will Draw Kids Home”, Multnomah

topic: Mom, Children, Dad, Counselor, Inspirational Parenting

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

- Haim Ginott

topic: Children, Nice, Self Esteem, Spoiled Children, Overhearing

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Marriage, Mother, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Family, Good Night, Baby, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

- Josh Billings

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

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

- Carl Jung

topic: Inspirational, Change, Family, Parent Child, I Have Changed

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Relationship, Birthday, Children, Inspirational Parents, Mother And Daughter

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Funny, Leadership, Witty, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Family, Friday, Mother, Best Memories, Deposits

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

- Benjamin Spock

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

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Love, Daughter, Children, Good Parent, Love And Family

I see my parents as tiny children who need love. I have compassion for my parents’ childhoods. I now know that I chose them because they were perfect for what I had to learn. I forgive them and set them free, and I set myself free.

- Louise Hay

source: FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Aug 03, 2011

topic: Children, Compassion, Perfect, Need Love, Parent Child

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

- Esther Hicks

source: Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2006). “The Law of Attraction”, p.149, Hay House, Inc

topic: Children, Thinking, Parent, Parent Child, Rational Thought

Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.

- Richard Hooker

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 52, 1895.

topic: Children, Grief, Flower, Loss Of A Parent, Parent Child

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Children, Parent, Generations, Bad Manners, Parent Child

Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child development would prefer an even later age. In a reasonably warm home, parent-child responses, the true ABC's of sound education, are likely to be a hundred times more frequent than the average teacher-child responses in a classroom.

- Dorothy Moore

source: Raymond Moore, Dorothy Moore (1989). “Homestyle Teaching”, W Publishing Group

topic: Teacher, Children, Home, Parent Child, Child Development

There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get - there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end.

- Helene Grimaud

source: Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

topic: Children, Independent, Parent, Parent Child, Parent Child Relationship