QUOTES ABOUT PARENTING

 QUOTES ABOUT PARENTING

• As one successful parent said about raising children, 'Treat them all the same by treating them differently; respecting their differences.' (Stephen R. Covey)
• The best inheritance a parent can give their children, is a good example.
• The best thing to spend on kids is time.
• A child does not need to be parented. He needs to be mothered and fathered. (Zan Thompson)
• A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise that you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. (John Andrew Holmes)
• Children come into the world expecting to eat when they're hungry;
  Our job is to teach them to eat when there's food.
• Children grow up to be adults, but parents are parents forever!
• Children need models more than they need critics. (Joseph Joubert)
• A common fallacy is that simply having a baby makes one a parent--which is as absurd as believing that buying a piano makes one a musician.
• Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. (Robert A. Heinlein)
• Don't let your parents down; they brought you up!
• Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. (Robert Fulghum)
• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. (Charles R. Swindoll)
• Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen. (John D. Rockerfeller III)
• Happiness is the atmosphere in which all things grow.
• A happy childhood is the best horseshoe nail.
• How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's table. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak he had planted. (Sir Walter Scott)
• A hundred years from now...it will not matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove...but the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child.
• If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. (Bette Davis)
• If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (Abigail Van Buren)
• If you want to do something positive for your children, try to improve your marriage.
• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. (Haim Ginott)
• In the eyes of a child, love is spelled T-I-M-E.
• Letting a child dictate to you is the same as robbing him of a parent.
• Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents. (James Brewer)
• My accomplishments? Let me show you these pictures in my wallet.
• My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have...because one kid'll take up 100 percent of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100 percent of your time. (Karen Brown)
• No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, what anything means until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before. (Lafcadio Hearn)
• Only in a world of love can we unfold and bloom.
• Parenthood is the art of bringing your children up without putting them down.
• Parents can give children things or time--time is better!
• Permissiveness believes in letting the child do whatever he wants on the premise that if he gets killed doing it he won't do it again.
• Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own. (John Mason Brown)
• Some times we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up. (James Dobson)
• Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.
• There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children--one is roots, the other, wings. Hodding (Carter, Sr.)
• There is trial marriage but no trial children.
• There's nothing wrong with using four letter words in explaining the facts of life to children--words like love, kiss, help, care, give... (Sam Levenson)
• To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.
• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. (Josh Billings)
• To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness. (J.B. Priestley)
• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. (P.D. James)
• When you were a kid, you never understood what your parents were going through. Now you'd just like to know how they got through it.
• Who of us is mature enough for children before they arrive? The value of marriage isn't that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. (Peter De Vries)
• The work will wait while you show the child a rainbow,
  But the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
• You can do anything with children if only you play with them. (Prince Otto van Bismarck)
• Your children need your presence more than your presents.