Quotes about Parenting

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Children can be disciplined with love.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. —MARGARET MEAD

How many parents have lost the hearts of their children because they forgot why they had them? It was never to control them but to provide an environment in which they would flourish. How many couples have lost their marriages because they forgot why they were together? They fight against each other rather than for their love. Do we grasp and wrestle with others for their roles because we lose sight of our own?

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

Some are sad. And some are glad. And some are very, very bad. Why are they Sad and glad and bad? I do not know. Go ask your dad.

When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.