2,497 Quotes About Parenting

Parents have their own reasons for what they say and who they are, and I had always loved them even if they seemed dismissive, but that day I realise a horrible truth. Possibly they love me, but they really don’t like me.It feels like I am losing not just my daughter, but my family.

Confer with kids instead of complaining, because when you grumble, you manifest nothing but the parenting".

Set the standards of healthy living in front of the children, by being an embodiment of healthy living yourself, then and then only will there be hope for the kids to turn into responsible, stable, patient and socially functional human beings.

If a child grows up in an environment infested with predators, he or she would have a hard time building healthy relationships in society, the whole life.

Children experience shame as the threat of being unlovable.

He ransacked his mind for something good to say, and found almost nothing. “My father gave me only two pieces of advice,” he said, “and only one of them has stood the test of time. They were: 'Don't touch your principal, and 'Keep the liquor bottle out of the bedroom.

Most little girls don’t want to play with trucks, as almost any parent can attest. Including me: when my son gave his daughter Eliza a toy train, she placed it in a baby carriage and covered it with a blanket so it could get some sleep.

To my children I say, “Fall on me.” For what greater privilege has a parent than to be that place to fall in a world that is itself fallen?

While your children are only born once, the process of birthing something into them happens every day thereafter.