Browsing Topic Best Great Parenting Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

If I had my child to raise all over again,I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.I’d run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I’d do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I’d build self esteem first, and the house later.I’d teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

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.

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

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.