Parenting Quotes

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. --Kahlil Gibran

Parenting Quotes - Timeless Advice To Help You Be a Better Parent

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

--Josh Billings

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

--Jesse Jackson

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

--Robert Fulghum

Parenting quotes

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 there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

--C.G. Jung

Simply having children does not make mothers.

--John A. Shedd

Children have more need of models than of critics.

--Carolyn Coats

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.

--Hodding Carter, Jr.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

--P.D. James

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

--Haim Ginott

Kids spell love T-I-M-E.

--John Crudele

Children need love, especially when they "do not deserve" it.

--Harold Hulbert

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

--Carl Jung

Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

--Bill Cosby

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

--Jodie Foster

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

--Khalil Gibran

I had lots of hurt and lots of pain, lots of woundedness, bruises, broken heartedness in my life. I was abused sexually by my father, abused mentally, emotionally. My mom didn't know what to do about it, and she was being hurt in the process. So she just didn't deal with it. And I can guarantee you, just because you don't deal with something, that doesn't make it go away.

--Joyce Meyer

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

--Brian Tracy

I hope these quotes on parenting and quotes about parenting helped inspire you to be a better parent. ~Adam

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