Quotes about Parenting

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey."

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.

And anyhow I'd always be too tired at night to bother saying prayers. People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now

Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.

Is that a nice thing to say to your mother? Oh, how true it is that it is sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child." "Is that a nice thing to say to your daughter?" said unrepentant Valancy.

The best thing a man can do for his children is love their mother.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.