2,497 Quotes About Parenting

Try as we might, we cannot force our children to reach their full potential. Theirs is the life that they alone must live. The role of the parent is to prepare the most fertile soil and appropriately water the seedling so it can most fully blossom.

The metaphor of transformation deepens as we consider how a butterfly needs to struggle for its ability to fly. If the chrysalis is broken by someone in an attempt to help free the butterfly, its wings will be shriveled and immobile.

Treat sins that your children struggle with like basic math. Practice, Practice, and you'll get it.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children.

I believe that many sacrifices need to be made in order to do your best as a parent, but I also believe you don't have to abandon your whole life.

Children should not be taught to get a job or pursue a profession. Children should be taught to discover their passion and with it define their mission.

Poor parents tend to follow[...] a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth".

As the adults, we are the ones who set the stage for vitality, love, or disharmony in the home. We set ourselves up for one or the other, and our children take their cues from us.