2,497 Quotes About Parenting

Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior.

Love with your whole heart, and never be sorry you did.--tdf

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

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

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.