Quotes about Parenting

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'

People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.

My poor children have been the subject of all of my experiments. We're still doing what I call 'Amish summers' where I turn off all electronics and pack away all their computers and stuff and watch them scream for a while until they settle down into, like, an electronic-free summer.

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Even a bad father can leave an inheritance. Only a good father can leave a heritage.

Andrew Carnegie said, "The almighty dollar bequeathed to a child is an almighty curse. No man has the right to handicap his son with such a burden as great wealth.

The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.

Don't have your first talk about sex with your pregnant fifteen-year-old. Be positive. Talk about how good sex can be inside marriage. Don't be ashamed to talk about what God wasn't ashamed to create.