Top 100 Parenting Parents Quotes
#1. We all need a cheering committee and parents are a child's most important fans!
Vivian Kirkfield
#2. We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
James E. Faust
#3. It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
Joyce Maynard
#4. Parenthood ... It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.
Peter Krause
#5. Most parents are so convinced of their little darling's innocence that, by proxy, in rallying for junior's purity they come to believe in their own innocence - as if duplicating oneself will make a right!
Anthony Marais
#6. What God is to the world, parents are to their children.
Philo
#7. Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do.
Sebastian Faulks
#8. Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
Simon Soloveychik
#9. Attitudes of optimism, of "let them be", and of joy in watching and helping another life develop and blossom will help parents relish their parenting role and will provide the resilience necessary to navigate turbulent times.
Timothy Carey
#10. 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
#11. Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents
Agona Apell
#12. The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it's rarely a straight line.
Eileen Kennedy-Moore
#13. The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future
Stefan Molyneux
#14. Blame or credit, does not belong to the child alone. Parents, those who raised the child, must be given equal credit, or blame. That does not change, when the child is one, twenty or ninety years old.
Omar Kiam
#15. We do not raise our children alone ... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.
Richard Louv
#16. It felt great to be loved. Children... Children are a hazard to your life... As they'd got older they had become more expensive. But it was worth it. If she didn't have her children her life would be empty. And even though your children leave your nest, they always have one foot tethered to you.
Cindy Vine
#17. Robin Simon, a sociology professor at Florida State University and researcher on parenting and happiness, told The Daily Beast in 20083 that parents experience lower levels of emotional well-being, less frequent positive emotions and more frequent negative emotions than their childless peers.
Jessica Valenti
#18. Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child's entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?
Dan Pearce
#19. When we raise our children to Shine, the future becomes brighter!
Brigette Foresman
#20. Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.
Isocrates
#21. If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture.
Neil Postman
#22. A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy Graham
#23. My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.
Chelsea Clinton
#24. You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents.
Dr. Linda Barboa
#25. Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark
#26. I felt like I needed to comfort both the little girl inside me and my mother, assuring them that neither of them could have prevented the rape. I didn't want my mother to blame herself and I didn't want to blame the little girl inside of me for not speaking up at the age of six.
Erin Merryn
#28. You get a job when you have the right qualifications and work experience. Similarly, individuals should be allowed to be parents (considering that parenting is a full time job for at least 16 years) only when they completely understand how life/mind works and have implemented it in their lives.
Maddy Malhotra
#29. For parents, the days are long but the years are short.
Travis Thrasher
#30. Your child is least interested in what the report card says.
All that matters to him / her is what you say on seeing the report card.
Manoj Arora
#31. We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.
Liane Moriarty
#32. One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father's troubles.
Dada Bhagwan
#33. Since we have had this baby with us, I have never again wondering why I never got pregnant. There is no doubt in my mind that God, in His wonderful way, was saving us to be the parents of this wonderful little boy.
Kathleen Silber
#34. I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
Tamora Pierce
#35. 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
#36. Too many parents fail to understand that there is a difference between fitting in and being liked, that there is a difference between being "normal" and being happy. High school is temporary. Family is not.
Alexandra Robbins
#37. Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.
Beverly K. Bachel
#38. Over time, parents have barnacled the most routine activities in infancy with their own preoccupations. It's sometimes hard to see the baby for all the barnacles.
Nicholas Day
#39. When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#40. Parents don't become inaccessible to your Children, when they don't get the right information from you, they may get the wrong one from an outsider; you are their Caretaker..be wise!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#41. In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence - wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.
Seth Adam Smith
#42. Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary people. There, I said it. The worst thing a 21st-century child of interesting parents could be: ordinary. Like us.
Heather Choate Davis
#43. Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.
Grant Hill
#44. The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.
Heather Choate Davis
#45. Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.
Nick Hornby
#46. Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.
Peggy O'Mara
#47. Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to build connection understanding that this foundation is the bedrock of all later self-worth, self-esteem and self-actualization.
Shefali Tsabary
#48. Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.
Caitlin Moran
#50. Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word ...
SACRIFICE.
Parents give up so much: time, sleep, freedom, money, intimacy ...
pretty much everything but complaining how much they sacrifice.
Brian K. Vaughan
#51. Brothers and sisters, if your spouse doesn't feel good about something, show respect for those feelings. When you take the easy way out by saying and doing nothing, you may be enabling destructive behavior.
Larry R. Lawrence
#52. Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?"
"There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish.
Loretta Chase
#53. That's a parents' job, isn't it? To raise a child strong enough to leave and break our hearts?
Beth Groundwater
#54. The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
#55. My parents never projected their dreams onto me. If they hoped I would be a great pitcher, or political figure, or artist (no chance), they never told me about it. Their view of parenting was to offer love and encourage me to chart my own path.
George W. Bush
#56. The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.
Sarah Newton
#57. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato
#58. 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
#59. I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
LZ Granderson
#60. There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents.
Brene Brown
#61. Try to imagine what the rising generation could become if these five righteous patterns were practiced consistently in every home. Our young people could be like Helaman's army: invincible (see Alma 57:25
26).
Larry R. Lawrence
#62. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
#63. The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Gilbert Highet
#64. I appeal to parents: never, never say, "Hurry up," to a child. (62)
Vladimir Nabokov
#65. Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!
Steve Karagiannis
#66. Whatever emotional state you're in while you're parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks "on paper." In other words, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, "your emotional state is the message.
Michael Y. Simon
#67. 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
#68. Remember that parenting is a temporary job, not an identity. Kids with parents who have a life learn both hat they aren't the center of the universe and that they can be free to pursue their own dreams.
Henry Cloud
#69. Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
Plato
#70. I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.
Eric McCormack
#71. Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.
Seth Adam Smith
#72. The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6
Seneca.
#73. While we believe we hold the power to raise our children, the reality is that our children hold the power to raise us into the parents they need us to become. For this reason, the parenting experience isn't one of parent versus child but of parent with child.
Anonymous
#74. The best parents aren't the ones who know everything. They're the ones who are willing to learn.
Noah Kempler
#75. The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
Jan Blaustone
#76. 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
#77. Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins.
Sydney J. Harris
#78. 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
#79. The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.
Kathleen Silber
#80. 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
#81. Parents know all about the verses related to how children should behave but not so much about those that remind them about how they should behave.
Jeff VanVonderen
#83. Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard
#84. [French] Parents see it as their job to bring the child around to appreciating this [food]. They believe that just as they must teach a child how to sleep, how to wait, and how to say bonjour, they must teach her how to eat.
Pamela Druckerman
#85. The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.
Russell D. Moore
#86. Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children.
Jason E. Royle
#87. Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible.
Charisse Montgomery
#88. At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
Jane D. Hull
#89. Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.
Dave Eggers
#90. Poor parents tend to follow[ ... ] a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth".
Malcolm Gladwell
#91. Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were so fragile and parenting so difficult to learn, where would we all be as adults?
Sandra Scarr
#92. Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.
Kathleen Rooney
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.
Carl Honore
#96. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.
Tony Reinke
#97. School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.
Calvin Trillin
#98. So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a while, they would learn from their kids what life is truly about.
Martin R. Lemieux
#99. Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#100. I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
Barbara Bush
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