Quotes on Parenting

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for _x000D_ _x000D_ them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and _x000D_ _x000D_ it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to _x000D_ _x000D_ follow.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.