Best Parent Child Quotes

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

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

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

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

There are some things we really need to take care of: the children, and grandparents. Children, whether they are young or older, they are the strength that moves us forward. We place our hope in them.Grandparents are the living memory of the family. They passed on the faith, they transmitted the faith, to us.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents’ children and we become our children’s parents instead.

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

If there is anyone dependent on your income – parents, children, relatives – you need life insurance.

Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

What we are is our parents’ children; what we become is our children’s parents.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything–the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.

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.

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild; Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned.

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.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

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

In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn’t have enough time with their parents.

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

There’s always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn’t matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get – there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end.

Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child development would prefer an even later age. In a reasonably warm home, parent-child responses, the true ABC’s of sound education, are likely to be a hundred times more frequent than the average teacher-child responses in a classroom.

Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. … The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

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