Parenting Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

Why don’t kids understand their nap is not for them, but for us?

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of the foods that my kid didn’t finish.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.