Quotes about Parenting
When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.
- James Dobson
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
- Henry Cloud
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
- Abraham Lincoln
A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?
- Stephen Colbert
Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
- Ann Voskamp
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
- Stephen Covey
Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
- Stephen Covey
I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.
- Roseanne Barr
The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.
- Zig Ziglar
It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.
- Craig Groeschel