Parenting Quotes
853 quotes by 584 authors
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
— Brooke Shields
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There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
— Andrew Shue
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Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
— Red Skelton
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I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.
— Tori Spelling
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I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
— Steven Spielberg
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Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we…
— Eliot Spitzer
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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
— Benjamin Spock
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
— Benjamin Spock
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
— Benjamin Spock
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
— Benjamin Spock
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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers…
— Benjamin Spock
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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's…
— Ben Stein
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
— Gloria Steinem
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The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
— Meryl Streep
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Children learn to smile from their parents.
— Shinichi Suzuki
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
— Mother Teresa
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Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
— Emma Thompson
Who Wrote These Parenting Quotes
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