Quotes about Parenting

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

Children are God's homework assignment to parents. We are commissioned to love, teach and train them up for successful adulthood.

Research shows that Christians are theologically losing the next generation. More than 90 percent of born-again kids today are rejecting the absolute truth their parents embrace. Respected apologist Josh McDowell explains it this way: "You can be the greatest explainer of truth. But if the very heart of your son or daughter does not believe 'my daddy loves me,' they will walk away from your truth."9

Sadly the majority of kids today are forsaking their church and faith after they graduate from high school. This is primarily the result of poor fathering. When dads lead spiritually, studies suggest that kids are up to twenty times more likely to stay in church long-term than when moms are the spiritual leaders at home.7

Children can only grow from something you love to something you lose.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

parents are encouraged to read slowly and yawn frequently. The author describes the book as "the verbal equivalent of rocking a baby to sleep.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.