Parenting Quotes -- Need some inspiration?
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| You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. ~William D. Tammeus Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. ~Marcelene Cox Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~Josh Billings There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. ~Astrid Alauda, on the "hot mom" trend Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ~Joyce Maynard Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~Homer If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. ~Robert Burton, "Anatomy of Melancholy," Democritus to the Reader, 1621 Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. ~Lionel Kauffman Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~Lane Olinghouse |
