Quotes about Parenting

When people say to me, 'What should I tell my daughter?' I always say: The most important thing is to listen. This is how she learns she has something to say.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

Teach them [your children] in such a way that they could not misunderstand the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

As a parent, I know I speak for millions when I say that every child deserves to grow up in a stable, loving home.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Do we not sit for hours at a time before our computer or TV screens, amused at the debased activities we see, some of which might have made even the ancient pagans blush? The debasing goings-on draw our transfixed attention, in many cases resulting in turning over to their mesmerizing devices our children who desperately need nurturing. Are these not altars from which emanate the images made like corruptible man?