Parenting Quotes

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

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.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

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.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

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

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

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

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

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.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.