2,497 Quotes About Parenting

The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.