Quotes about Parenting

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.

I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. (3 John 4)