Parenting Quotes

And have an education system that trusts both teachers and parents, because they're both experts in what kids need.

Contrary to the prevailing myth, children who act “starved” for attention have received too much, not too little. They’ve come to depend on being the center of attention, and the more the Look-at-Me Beast is fed, the bigger it gets and the more demanding it becomes. Children who don’t get enough attention usually withdraw into their own little windowless worlds.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

It's not what you think that influences your child; it's what you communicate.

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say. My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.

A young child, a fresh, uncluttered mind, a world before him -- to what treasures will you lead him?

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

We need good fathers in our homes,
whose hearts are full of grace,
who by their love and earnest prayers,
make home a pleasant place.

After a young couple brought their new baby home, the wife suggested that her husband should try his hand at changing diapers. 'I'm busy,' he said, "I'll do the next one.' The next time came around and she asked again. The husband looked puzzled, 'Oh! I didn't mean the next diaper. I meant the next baby!'

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

I think you have to decide whether achievement is the route to self-esteem or whether self-esteem is the route to achievement. I think you guys think self-esteem is the route to achievement, and I think you're wrong.

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Be a positive mirror for your child. As you change, your children change, and as your children change, the world around them changes.

Children are likely to live up to what we believe of them.

Children are likely to live up to what we believe of them.