Parenting Quotes - Page 12

For parents, the days are long but the years are short.

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.


Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How - how? - can I make it always so?

Sure, I'd like a child of my own. I'd also like a laser pistol, that doesn't mean someone should give me one.

Whatever I haven’t accomplished biologically obviously wasn't all that imperative.

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

It’s never too early to begin pointing your little ones’ souls heavenward.

Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.

Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like that for the rest of their lives.

We watch, and they surprise us.

We watch, and they surpass us.

We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!

Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled calamity.
Maybe she just doesn't like children.
Nobody likes children, Yunior, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns.

Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. "Am I still a mother?" I asked myself... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad.

Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.

Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t oke enough holes to drain it dry.