Quotes about Parenting

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.

Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to one's unwanted children. What a fate - to grow rotund and unseemly, to lose my self-love, to think in terms of milk, oatmeal, nurse, diapers. ...Dear dream children, how much more beautiful you are, dazzling little creatures who flutter (all dream children must flutter) on golden, golden wings.

I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter. 'I suppose she talks, she eats, and everything.

Fathers are the first image of who God is!

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

Every time you resist temptation you are winning for your children.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.