2,497 Quotes About Parenting

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!

Correction badly undertaken creates distance.

Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.

But, Dad…” She hesitated. “It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that.”Sol managed a smile. “No parent would refuse that, Rachel.

A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.

Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.

It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly supervised and repressed if the desired result is to ensue.

As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.

There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.