Quotes About Parenting And Teaching

#1. In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

Gerhard E Frost

#2. Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.

Jean Ashworth Bartle

#3. Maybe we should spend less time teaching kids to believe in Santa and more time teaching them to believe in themselves.

Brooke Hampton

#4. It still amazes me that we insist on teaching algebra to all students when only about 20 percent will ever use it and fail to teach anything about parenting when the vast majority of our students will become parents.

Nel Noddings

#5. You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, 'everybody wants to cut a movie'.

Drexel Deal

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

Gordon Neufeld

#8. Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.

Bill Ayers

#9. I am a mother. I see clearly that while I've been teaching them, they have been my reason to learn.

Tsara Shelton

#10. Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness ...

Ann Voskamp

#11. A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#12. Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.

Kevin Heath

#13. Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.

Tamara L. Chilver

#14. We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller

#15. A kid is what you feed it,
plus from that what can be gathered.

Will Advise

#16. Whether you're explaining where pets go when they die or teaching your child to recycle, your philosophies have ramifications. For the rest of history, echos of your voice will be heard.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#17. Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example.

Miya Yamanouchi

#18. Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

Brent L. Top

#19. Every child should be taught how to read, write and think.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#21. By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.

Cheryl Richardson

#22. If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

Amy Carmichael

#23. Unfortunately, we spend more time teaching our daughters how to avoid becoming rape victims than teaching our sons not to become rapists.

Amir Clayton Powell

#24. There's one thing you can start doing right now that will change how you communicate with any young human: Remember what it's like to be one.

Justin Young

#25. Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won't embarrass us. We're working toward something much more important than that. We're actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ.

Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

#26. Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#27. To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.

Vironika Tugaleva

#28. The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Gilbert Highet

#29. I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

Criss Jami

#30. Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.

Jeff Benedict

#31. So, my brother and I, over the last two years, went back through Scripture and pulled every (passage) we could in relation to parenting children, guarding their hearts, teaching them, loving them, being patient. And then we worked through 40 principles and wrote The Love Dare for Parents.

Alex Kendrick

#32. A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

Liz Becker