Quotes about Parenting

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

All children are rebellious. They are all self-centered and think the world revolves around them. That is why they need parents to raise them. Almost every child will, at times, bring reproach on his family, but he is still a part of the family.

A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey."

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.

And anyhow I'd always be too tired at night to bother saying prayers. People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now

Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.