Quotes on Parenting

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Children need models rather than critics.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.