Parenting Quotes

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

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

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

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.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

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