Parenting Quotes - Page 10

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.

There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is - the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It’s too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved into her dorm in time for freshman orientation. It’s been marked on the kitchen calendar for weeks - the expiration date on her childhood.

New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi.