 Parenting QuotesHere are some of my favourite parenting quotes. Being a parent can be more frightening than a sleep deprived mom with no concealer. As a parent, you're constantly worried, riddled with guilt and terrified that your inadequacies will cause lasting damage. If your goal was to age 10 years quickly you could have just smoked 2 packs a day and followed Canadian Politics! But instead you decided to have kids. And even though these little bundles of joy test our patience, they bring us an unexplainable amount of love and happiness. Read these parenting quotes every time you want to remind yourself why you signed up for the most challenging and rewarding job of your life.
Enjoy These Parenting QuotesA person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.--Richard L. Evans Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ! To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness. Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn -- with kids as well as with adults. I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives. We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. I looked on childrearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honourable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.I would do less correcting and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging and less tugging. More Parenting QuotesIf you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.--Bette Davis If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. 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. Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents. Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents. Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes. The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents. When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents. Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on." Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
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