Having a child is like getting a tattoo… on your face. You better be committed.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.

There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Too much love never spoils children. Children become spoiled when we substitute presents for presence.

If your children fear you, they cannot trust you. If they don’t trust you, they cannot learn from you.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.

There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.