Parenting Responsibility Quotes

#1. Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

Rachael Bermingham

#2. When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

Rose Kennedy

#3. To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

Kate Morton

#4. Nurturing a child's sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child's life.

Wess Stafford

#5. Children who have faith have distinctly different characteristics from those who don't. In fact, one of the main manifestations of a person with strong faith is the ability to give - not just in terms of money or possessions, but also time, love, and encouragement.

Stormie O'martian

#6. Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.

Tom Althouse

#7. Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

C. Everett Koop

#8. The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.

Pratik Patil

#9. This communal parenting brought me out of the privacy of our foreign enclave and into the public life of the community. Here, parenting was everyone's responsibility; all adults were "aunties" and "uncles".

Aminta Arrington

#10. 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

#11. It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn't be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.

Jess C. Scott

#12. Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.

Heather Day Gilbert

#13. 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

#14. By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you end up inadvertently extending the introverted existence of a teenager deep into middle age.

Danielle Crittenden

#15. As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#16. Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.

Richard Eyre

#17. So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Virginia Satir

#18. Jack, I'm just telling you, if it turns out. . .I want you to shoot me."
"Dee - "
"I'm not kidding, not exaggerating, just telling you that I do not have it in me to handle that."
"You have a daughter, too. You don't have the luxury not to handle shit.

Blake Crouch

#19. Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

Lisa Wingate

#20. We should not cushion every blow. This is life. Learning to deal with struggle and to develop responsibility is crucial. A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. We can still demonstrate gentle and attached parenting without raising children who melt on a warm day.

Jen Hatmaker

#21. Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Evan Bayh

#22. 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

#23. Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly.

Billy Graham

#25. 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

#26. The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

John Lennon

#27. Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace.

Elisabeth Badinter

#28. 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

#29. I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

Harrison Ford