2,497 Quotes About Parenting

If you can't afford to give your child the right to pursue their dreams, you have no right to breed.

When you learn to live unselfishly in united adoration of your beloved family, you have fulfilled the art of Fatherhood.

Children need to make mistakes and discover that it's not the end of the world. That's how they gain the confidence to try new things in life. Toxic parents impose unobtainable goals, impossible expectations, and ever-changing rules on their children. They expect their children to respond with a degree of maturity that can come only from life experiences that are inaccessible to a child. Children are not miniature adults, but toxic parents expect them to act as if they were.

Many fathers believe the lie that they play a second-class role to the mother. If you are a father, I want to remind you that your children want and need you. You are critical to their well-being and success.

Many of the time-honored [parenting] techniques that have been passed down from generation to generation are, quite simply, bad advice masquerading as wisdom.

Being a parent is one long process of daring yourself to let go. Sometimes worry and love and control, all get jumbled up until you can't see the difference.

Manipulative parents have a field day on holidays, spreading guilt as if it were Christmas cheer.

Parents who feel good about themselves do not have to control their adult children. But [toxic parents] operate from a deep sense of dissatisfaction with their lives and a fear of abandonment. Their child's independence is like the loss of a limb to them. As the child grows older, it becomes ever more important for the parents to pull the strings that keep the child dependent. As long as toxic parents can make their son or daughter feel like a child, they can maintain control.

Just do everything we didn't do and you will be perfectly safe.