Quotes on Raising Children

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

When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

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

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.

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.

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