2,497 Quotes About Parenting

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

It could not have been easy for Mother, an only child, to grow up without a father and with a mother who was remote. Photos of her as a child show her extremely dressed up --Cornie's beautiful little doll. But a daughter, unlike a doll, grows up, and might fall in love with and marry someone her mother does not like; she becomes an individual with her own ideas.

Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.

when someone doesn’t feel valued or heard, their desire to participate in a job or relationship disappears.

I matter to my children. My children depend on me for their basic needs. My children need my love and nurturance. My attitudes, behaviors, and words influence and impact their lives.

Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days.

Perhaps if we parented our children in the manner we wished to be parented when we were kids, the world would be less neurotic. But what people tend to do is to replicate their parents' harsh discipline or the society's skewed behaviours. This cycle negatively affects the development of children, and it continues in each generation.