Parenting Quotes - Page 14

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
Adore to weeping,
Love to laughing,
Desire to praising.
Tickle, giggle, kiss!
Adonai my God,
For one moment in love,
Let alone a thousand,
Let alone my life,
For the honor of raising and loving
Children in love,
Praise of You is ever upon my lips.

People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.

No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

TV news is like kryptonite to children. The two major shifts in taste for children to adulthood are news and mustard. Kids hate news and mustard. Well, mustard even has the word 'turd' in it. Maybe I should threaten my kids that if they don't go to bed, I will force them to watch an hour-long newscast about mustard.

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

But, Dad…” She hesitated. “It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that.”

Sol managed a smile. “No parent would refuse that, Rachel.

Motherhood:
The most exhausting, emotional, rewarding
and life-enhancing journey a woman can take.

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That means
taking charge of our lives, being strong even if I don’t feel it,being brave and believing that I can make things better.

From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He's been listening to somebody else tell him what to do... He hasn't changed. He is still listening to somebody else tell him what to do. The problem is, it isn't you any,ore; it's his peers.

There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

We must return to optimism in our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly.

She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing “single” about a single mom.

Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.