Parenting Quotes - Page 4

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don't spank your child show them some attention.

One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams

It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.

With a lump forming in his throat, he thought
about all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More than
anything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw up
like his dad when it came to love and marriage.

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it. That is all there is for any of us.

You don't need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the true difference in the long run.

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.

You can say the same thing nicely.

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will." Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

In a brain scan, relational pain - that caused by isolation during punishment - can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them and onto YOU.