Quotes about Parenting

We have practically been conditioned to expect God to be our helicopter parent. And if for some reason we don't run to God to solve every little problem, from finding our car keys to deciding on color schemes for the nursery, we are told there is something deeply wrong with us spiritually. Phooey.

a common burden so many Christians have unwittingly carried, namely, that watching over us is God, an unstable parent, who is right off the bat harsh, vindictive, at best begrudgingly merciful, and mainly interested in whether we've read and understood the fine print; if not, God has no recourse but to punish us.

And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter.

Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,

and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”