Quotes on Parenting

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.