Parenting Quotes - Page 13

God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

Children are God's way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

What a funny girl, I thought, and then I realized something. To the three-year-old ye, and maybe even to the thirty year old eye, weeds and grass look very similar. Same color, same feeling, same texture.

We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple of terms to make the distinction. He talks about the "experiencing self" versus the "remembering self.

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits and parents, "Why?

A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell.

The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.

When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are building our relationship with them-grounded in honesty and trust. It's a win-win situation.

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones-I had a childhood.

Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.

Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

And Ana remembered her father's words, "Say no! Run! Tell me!

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We need to prepare them so they know who to tell, should a violation occur, so they don't have to live with a painful secret, long into adulthood.

Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child.

Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.

I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline.

Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.