2,497 Quotes About Parenting

The sacred gift of parenthood is inscribe in the universal words ‘Papa’ and ‘Mama’.

Parents must teach their children the fear of God.

Once a baby is born, the parents have around one and a half decades to build his or her character and fill the mind with vigour and virtues.

Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.

Nancy took her tiny little baby and held him down toward Norton."Look Norton," she said, "This is a baby."Norton looked up at Charlie, took him in, and sort of nodded as if assimilating the information.There was a very long pause, and then I heard Nancy gulp."You've finally done it," she said to me."What?" I wanted to know."Most mothers would have said, 'Look, Charlie, this is a cat.'"I started to laugh."Not with Norton," I said.

Reading every day with children can't guarantee perfect outcomes for any family—not in grades, not in happiness, not in relationships. But it is as close to a miracle product as we can buy, and it doesn't cost a nickel. As a flawed, fallible person with an imperfect temper, I know that reading every night is not just the nicest thing I've done with my children but represents, without question, the best I have been able to give them as their mother.

Our tremendous drive for social acceptance and toward conformity in our time is causing us to train our children to be a generation of young liars who do not even realise they are lying. We train our children to be subtly dishonest almost from the crib. "Shh... don't cry in front of all these people.

Reading to children opens their minds and fills their hearts!

Children don't need you to be the best reader, just a willing one.