Quotes about Parenting

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

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The transition from a sucking infant to a weaned child, from squalling baby to quiet son or daughter, is not smooth. It is stormy and noisy. It is no easy thing to quiet yourself: sooner may we calm the sea or rule the wind or tame a tiger than quiet ourselves. It is pitched battle. The baby is denied expected comforts and flies into rages or sinks into sulks. There are sobs and struggles. The infant is facing its first great sorrow and it is in sore distress.

Parents are in a position to forgive when they remember two things. One, the child that I am rearing is God's child. God loved the child before I did; He will continue this love long after I am gone. Two, God's method of dealing with sin, even the most destructive kind, is forgiveness. I am not going to be able to improve on God's methods.

Premature praise is false praise. Praise is our end but not our beginning. We begin our lives crying, not smiling and cooing and thanking our parents for bringing us into this lovely world full of dry diapers and sweet milk and warm flesh. We kick and flail. We yell and weep. We have the popularization of a kind of religion that, instead of training people to the sacrificial life after the pattern of our Lord, seduces them into having fun on weekends.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

We're not supposed to outlive our children. It goes against nature's plan of things.

if you can't have a say in your child's life during her preschool years, how can you expect to influence her to make wise choices when she's a teenager?

You picked me up from school You attended all my sporting functions You bought me a car Gave me use of a credit card But how can I feel pain, How can I feel pain, How can I feel pain When you're being so supportive?