Browsing Topic Best Raising Children Quotes

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

In the end, it’s not what you do for your children but what you’ve taught them to do for themselves.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

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

The child’s personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.

Don’t let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

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.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child

If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.

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

When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness–an incompleteness–in their lives; the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren’t capable of it.

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

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you’re the one talking.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.

If you had a free society you couldn’t get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

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

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can’t seem to figure out.

We’re not raising children with the love that we need to.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline…. But also every single day a kid needs a break.

I’m raising a child, and it’s public. The media creates these dramas, and that’s not what’s happening in my life.

Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from the expanded deferred action policies, long-term residents raising children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement, as long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.

People always ask us women about how we balance our lives. Rarely do they ever ask men this but we are asked this and it makes a lot of sense – balance, right? It sounds right. And of course you do have to balance because otherwise you’d go crazy. And you do have to find ways of doing things in a sensible manner, raising children and all those choices. But then there’s a part of creativity which is irrational and which is obsessive and then that’s also part of what we do. So, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think that’s part of what makes someone good.

There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

A grandchild is God’s reward for raising a child.

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.

Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

What if not just women, but both men and women, worked smart, more flexible schedules? What if the workplace itself was more fluid than the rigid and narrow ladder to success of the ideal worker? And what if both men and women became responsible for raising children and managing the home, sharing work, love, and play? Could everyone then live whole lives?

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.