Best Parenting Quotes

#1. The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live
enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.

David R. Wommack

#2. I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#3. Sometimes the best way we can serve God is by honouring and taking care of that which has already been give to us. This, is my case, is my children.

Cheryl B. Evans

#4. Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Nadia Boulanger

#5. Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

Mel Carnahan

#6. Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Tim Allen

#7. The time we are given for parenting is so short, passes so quickly and is jumbled up with so many other priorities and disruptions that, in the end, we come to doubt that we used it in the best interests of our children.

Bryce Courtenay

#8. Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

William Martin

#9. Among the most sacred gifts you can give your child is the gift of health. This gift is best given by example." Dr. Rand Olson

Rand Olson

#10. Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

Gordon Neufeld

#11. My purpose is to serve a purpose to humanity; therefore I've made it my goal to educate myself to the best of my abilities so that I can convey to my children the importance of knowledge and personal responsibility

Travis Culliton

#12. I loved my father. Most people did. He did try his best. He did provide for his family. He taught me many things and gave me a work ethic that made me who I am today: a guy who would throw his own father under the bus in a book about parenting.

Jim Gaffigan

#13. It's a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That's the most you can ever do.

Carew Papritz

#14. We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Jodi Picoult

#15. The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

#16. In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That means
taking charge of our lives, being strong even if I don't feel it,being brave and believing that I can make things better.

Charlotte Pearson

#17. The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

Madeleine L'Engle

#18. The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time

Kevin Heath

#19. What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one's own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?

J.R. Tompkins

#20. An exhausted parent can't provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.

Charisse Montgomery

#21. Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#22. The best gift is giving from your heart

Kevin Heath

#23. I am still a bit mad at you for kidnapping me and putting our children's lives in danger."

"There's no how-to manual for parenting, Oggie. I'm doing the best I can.

C. Alexander London

#24. Show your children God's love by loving them and others as Christ loves you. Be quick to forgive, don't hold a grudge, look for what's best, and speak gently into areas of their lives that need growth.

Genny Monchamp

#25. I believe that many sacrifices need to be made in order to do your best as a parent, but I also believe you don't have to abandon your whole life.

Holly Madison

#26. Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.

Joseph Fielding Smith

#27. Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Bob Filner

#28. Child development does not mean developing your child into the person you think they should be, but helping them develop into the best person they are meant to be.

Toni Sorenson

#29. The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

Benjamin Spock

#30. For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

Bob Barr

#31. Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

Erma Bombeck

#32. The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

Jan Blaustone

#33. Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

Stephen Mangan

#34. The best parents aren't the ones who know everything. They're the ones who are willing to learn.

Noah Kempler

#35. The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Oscar Wilde

#36. Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

Coretta Scott King

#37. This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.

Faye Snyder

#38. Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

John Boehner

#39. All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

Andrew Solomon

#40. As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

David W. Earle

#41. Education is the best gift my parent gave me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. The best predictor of success is a sense of resiliency, grit, capacity to fail and get up. If you're prevented from feeling discomfort of failure, you have no sense of how to handle those things at all.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#43. My rugrats give me gifts that say "#1 Mom" on them and I'm like, bwhahahahaha, joke's on you, I'm more like the #1,297,279 Mom. But they truly think I'm the best mom on earth. And that's all that matters.

Karen Alpert

#44. We can best help our children not by sacrificing ourselves for them, but by trying to fulfill our own lives. When we are involved in an honest pursuit of our own goals, we serve as positive role models for our children.

Lisa Firestone

#45. They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity.

Maddy Malhotra

#46. As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

Emma McLaughlin

#47. What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Benjamin Spock

#48. The best gift you can give your children is to keep yourself emotionally, physically, spiritually and intellectually healthy.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#49. Whether you're the best lawyer ...
Or the greatest philosopher ...
There will alway be at least two people that you can never win any argument with ...
Your child ...
And your wife ...
So don't argue with them ...
Just love them ...

Nelson M. Lubao

#50. In a brain scan, relational pain - that caused by isolation during punishment - can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

Daniel J. Siegel

#51. For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

Michael Showalter

#52. My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

Sloane Crosley

#53. The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.

Ricky Shetty

#54. We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood's magic words: I did it myself!

Lenore Skenazy

#55. We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)

Kristina Riggle

#56. If you can't do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing!

Stacey Culpepper

#57. For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

Carol Klein

#58. Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children
mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You'll see. That's the way it was for Bill and me. It's one of the many gifts of parenting.

Michael J. Fox