Parent Child Relationship Quotes:

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

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

- Laura Schlessinger

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

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

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

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

- Theodor Reik

source: Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.166, Transaction Publishers

topic: Children, Romance, Parent, Indestructible, Indelible

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

Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.

- Sandra Scarr

topic: Children, Views, Differences, Individual Differences, Parent Child Relationship

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

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: "Royal Truths, etc".

topic: Love, Inspirational, Family, Great Parents, Losing A Parent

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

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

- P. D. James

source: P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber

topic: Children, Parenting, Giving, Parent Child Relationship, Children And Parents

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

- Blair Underwood

topic: Relationship, Children, Parent, Parent Child Relationship, Strengthening

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

- Joyce Brothers

source: "Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Prompts for Personal Journals" by James A. Senn, (p. 44), 1995.

topic: Life, Family, Happiness, Happy Family, Large Family

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

- Plato

topic: Family, Children, Plato, Inspirational Parents, Great Parents

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

topic: Children, Independent, Omnipotence, Parent Child Relationship

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Family, Wise, Meaningful, Inspirational Father, Merchant Of Venice

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

- Salman Rushdie

source: "Salman Rushdie: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

topic: Children, Perspective, Parent, Parent Child Relationship

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

- Ben Marcus

source: "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.

topic: Children, Parent, Way, Parent Child Relationship

The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression. As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.

- Paulo Freire

topic: Children, Philosophy, Educational, Social Structure, Parent Child Relationship

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Children, Play, Parent, Parent Child Relationship

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

- Mary Catherine Bateson

topic: Peace, Children, Differences, Parent Child Relationship, Protectiveness

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

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

- Jeremy Sisto

topic: Children, Unique, Parent, Parent Child Relationship