Quotes About Parenting

Inspiring Quotes About Parenting

"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

"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, Integration of the Personality, 1939

"The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent."~Frank Pittman, Man Enough

Thought-provoking Quotes About Parenting

"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

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."~Abigail Van Buren

"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."~Robert A. Heinlein

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family

"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give."~P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest

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

Interesting Quotes About Parenting

"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."~Bill Cosby

"Behold, children are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them!"~Psalm 127:3-5

"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."~Margaret Fuller

"Discipline your son, and he will give you peace, he will bring delight to your soul."~Proverbs 29:17

Funny Quotes About Parenting

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."~Bill Cosby

"Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage."~Marcelene Cox

"Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too."~Lionel Kauffman

"Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much."~Bill Cosby

"The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable."~Lane Olinghouse

"I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time."~Bill Cosby

"Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income."~Dave Barry

"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out."~Erma Bombeck

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