Parenting Quotes

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

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.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

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

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

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.

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.

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.

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.