Quotes about Parenting

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

You can't decide to value your child sometimes, and then put a game of Farmville, or golf, or a scrapbooking session before kids on other days. Values are non-negotiable like that.

Babies! That's all it's about. Who ever knew the world would be all about babies?" Samantha shouts. "Every time I see a baby, I swear, I want to throw up," Miranda says. "I did throw up once." I nod eagerly. "I saw a filthy bib, and that was it." "Why don't these people just get cats and a litter box?" Samantha asks.

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

In this generation, we parents have gone out of our way to protect our children from pain and to see that they succeed. The problem with this approach is that the kids don't learn wisdom, and they don't learn decision-making skills. I believe we learn more from failure than success, but when parents keep kids from failure, our children inevitably end up lacking wisdom.

You may think you're merely raising children, but during this process, God is also raising you to become a stronger and more capable servant of his kingdom.

In a mixed egalitarian/complimentarian marriage, both the husband and wife will likely treat each other according to their perceived sense of marital duties, but those duties won't be received as such. They'll be resented....people who disagree on this issue can still worship the same God, but it will be difficult for them to raise the same kids or operate the same household.

Even so, whenever the biblical model is superseded and a woman or man becomes a mom or dad first instead of a wife or husband first, the marriage suffers—very often irretrievably.

From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he was a middle child - he wasn't the beloved first child, and he wasn't the cute little youngest child. So I said, can I use that same wording in a film? And he said yeah. So I bought it from him.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.

Gay couples cannot have children. All they can do is recruit your child.