Top 100 Parenting A Child Quotes
#1. What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.
Elizabeth Moon
#2. By making eye-contact, getting down to your child's level, offering a touch, or using a tone of your voice that conveys a desire to genuinely connect, you disarm yourself. You make it possible to reach your child more deeply and truly move forward together.
Hilary Flower
#4. 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
#5. Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
Christy Turlington
#6. When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
Erma Bombeck
#7. A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.
Russell D. Moore
#8. I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
Anne Lamott
#9. Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.
Louise Bates Ames
#10. Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
Ben Stein
#11. One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.
Michael Sandel
#12. Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. That a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime ... he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.
John Burnham Schwartz
#14. Sure, I'd like a child of my own. I'd also like a laser pistol, that doesn't mean someone should give me one.
Alex Bosworth
#15. Setting boundaries isn't an alternative to loving your child. It is a means of loving her.
Henry Cloud
#16. If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath
P.A. Speers
#17. I appeal to parents: never, never say, "Hurry up," to a child. (62)
Vladimir Nabokov
#18. A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.
Corrie Ten Boom
#19. Remember that every child and every parent has a completely unique and special rela- tionship. That child knows his dad and loves his dad. Our job is to watch that communication, to nurture it, and to support the parents in their heart-to-heart relationships with their children
Vimala McClure
#20. Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people.
C. JoyBell C.
#21. In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
Bill Cosby
#22. That's a parents' job, isn't it? To raise a child strong enough to leave and break our hearts?
Beth Groundwater
#23. It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.
Warren Farrell
#24. It is easy to be a good parent to a good child, but what makes a good parent, is dealing and being there for a difficult child, that is a real good parent!
Beta Metani'Marashi
#25. They'd have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they'd been scared silly that they might find that child dead.
Jenny Wingfield
#26. If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.
Kevin Heath
#27. The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them
Kevin Heath
#28. At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
Jane D. Hull
#29. Even though our journey as parents of a medically fragile child began with emotional turmoil, it has since become a purposeful odyssey that brings meaning and depth to our lives. This is the road we were born to travel.
Charisse Montgomery
#30. Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.
Thomas Bernhard
#31. You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms.
Neil A. Maxwell
#32. It's a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.
Drew Magary
#33. Child abuse is still sanctioned - indeed, held in high regard - in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own parents.
Alice Miller
#34. Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.
Dr. Linda Barboa
#35. What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion
Jennifer Senior
#36. To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.
Pamela Druckerman
#37. I didn't just see a child in my dreams - I felt it in my heart.
Seth Adam Smith
#38. It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#39. Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#40. I have one top-notch baby with whom I am in love. It's a head-over-heels "first love" kind of thing, because I pay for everything and all we do is hold hands.
Tina Fey
#41. Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.
Margaret Landon
#42. If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette Davis
#43. It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy.
Adam Phillips
#44. A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
Robert Breault
#45. A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.
Richard L. Evans
#46. One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself ... instead of worrying, watch with fascination and wonder as your child's life unfolds, and help the child take responsibility for his or her own life.
Charlotte Sophia Kasl
#47. Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
Dave Morris
#48. Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't oke enough holes to drain it dry.
Alvin Price
#49. Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.
Eva Hart
#50. Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child.
Steve Maraboli
#51. There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.
Anne Lamott
#52. Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will always be the biggest influence in a child's life.
Ron Baratono
#53. Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby
#54. The fact that a child that age was allowed to go out looking for the four-legged serial killer that the king has dispatched his personal gun-bearer to track down speaks of an older, hands-off parenting style.
Sarah Vowell
#55. Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#56. I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
Adam Davidson
#57. Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
Virginia Satir
#58. Begin to assess your own parenting. Acknowledging the painful reality that it is impossible to be a child of a narcissist and not be somewhat impaired narcissistically. Anyone raised this way has probably acquired a few traits of narcissism.
Karyl McBride
#59. Do you guys have sunscreen?" I ask.
"No," Scottie says. "Do we have water?"
"Did you bring any?" Alex asks.
"No," I say.
Alex pops her head up. "Did you bring snacks for us?"
"We can walk to town."
How do mothers manage to bring everything a child could need?
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#60. So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by kissing it and putting a Band-Aid on it, but not so with the pain of sexual abuse.
Erin Merryn
#61. Do not scream, when a child breaks a glass, only touch the shoulder, and say gracious words; do not worry!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#62. I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.
Khaled Hosseini
#63. A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#65. Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.
Chris Cleave
#67. The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
Jan Blaustone
#68. And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
Sydney J. Harris
#69. How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Walter Scott
#70. Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.
Peter Gallagher
#71. Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.
Sydney Strand
#72. Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#73. My personal philosophy is that, as a parent, it is my job to find that balance of when my child is ready to try something on her own and when she needs help.
Alice Callahan
#74. If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
John Holt
#75. A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.
Ariana Franklin
#77. But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?
Ramez Naam
#78. In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#79. Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.
Salman Rushdie
#80. Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ...
Muse
#81. The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#82. Love had still seemed like such a paltry thing in the face of all my doubts then, much the way it felt now. David had worries my love couldn't touch, fears my love couldn't easily dispel. My love seemed like a well-worn blanket instead of the titanium shield I needed.
Andrea Lochen
#83. There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#84. All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.
Heyward Bruce Ewart III
#85. Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years!
Tanya Masse
#86. Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
David Frost
#87. You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.
Alison Bruce
#88. The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
Benjamin Spock
#89. A good parent gives their child roots and wings.
Jonas Salk
#90. Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them. [ ... ] Ronan was mine but he never belonged to me. This is not an issue of ownership. A child is not a couch.
Emily Rapp
#91. What we sometimes see as annoying, incessant questions from a child may be a plea for recognition. Maybe they do not need an answer as much as attention.
Rand Olson
#92. Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well ... Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for your child.
Lisa Coyne
#93. Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.
Kenneth Oppel
#94. If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world
Dorothy Nolte
#95. Indra believed that the birth of each of her sons had been accompanied by a sign... With Sarva, overnight her cascading black hair showed a thick clutch of grey. He was the child she would struggle most with.
Rohini Mohan
#96. 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
#97. Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.
Robert Breault
#98. People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?
Jan Ellison
#99. But it's a child! You're a man!"
"Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.
Katherine Rundell
#100. If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.
John S.C. Abbott
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