6,115 Quotes About Kids

In today's climate, listening is so compelling because it is so rare. Give the gift of listening to the kid in your life. Put down your phone and have a real conversation. Get to know him. Look him in the eyes.

The best thing for a child to see at home is that his mother and father are friends to each other.

Loving your children fearlessly and relentlessly and with every bit of your heart will make a great impact on their lives. They will grow up and know that they were loved always. This still doesn’t teach them how to love themselves. You knowing how to love yourself and showing them a proper example of how to set boundaries, how to do self-care, and how to balance working and resting, will be things that they learn from you and will eventually mimic as adults.

Life skills such as cooking, cleaning, organizing, gardening and even sewing should be added creatively to the educational systems. It will teach children to be responsible along with seeking academic excellence. A grown-up person is not only by how smart he or she is, it is also by how cooperative and responsible they are.

Parents can cultivate the character of a child, not the competence of a child.

The business world tells us to focus on what we're best at and delegate or outsource the rest. However, this doesn't work with all your roles, or in every situation you may find yourself in. For example, when applied to parenting, nobody can replace YOU as the parent, not even your spouse. You must act within that role, even if you aren't very good at it, because nobody else can truly take your place.

Self-deception is the worst kind of deception and is a dangerous message to send to our kids. They will learn to do the same.

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.

Confer with kids instead of complaining, because when you grumble, you manifest nothing but the parenting".