Quotes about Parenting

As one successful parent said about raising children, 'Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

if "success" were important in any area of life, it was supremely important in our role as parents.

As one successful parent said about raising children, "Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

Our image of ourselves, and our role as good, caring parents, was even deeper than our image of our son and perhaps influenced

I'm convinced that too often parents are also trapped in the management paradigm, thinking of control, efficiency, and rules instead of direction, purpose, and family feeling. And leadership is even more lacking in our personal lives. We're into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.

you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent.

It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it. If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee. If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.

If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent.

But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.

Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the children you sacrificed for. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.

I love my kids. But I don't give them the burden of being the source of my love.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.