Parenting Quotes

853 Parenting quotes by 584 unique authors

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. — Bruce Jenner
I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think… — Eric McCormack
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have. — Mel Carnahan
While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short. — Daniel J. Siegel
Parenting needs to come to the forefront. — Bill Cosby
Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the basic values that… — Kate Snow
Earn the respect and confidence of your children through your loving relationship with them. A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence… — Howard W. Hunter
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of… — James E. Faust
Ironically, as some people become harder, they use softer words to describe dark deeds. This, too, is part of being sedated by secularism. Needless abortion,… — Neal A. Maxwell
Little girls love dolls. They just don't love dolls clothes — Jeff Foxworthy
There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when… — Dar Williams
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. — Anna Quindlen
Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. — Unknown Author
And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage… — Joan Rivers
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. — Plato
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to… — Plato
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. — Plato
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor. — Austin O'Malley
An angry father is most cruel towards himself. — Publilius Syrus
To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child… — Pamela Druckerman
The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work. — Pamela Druckerman
Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one. — Glennon Melton
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. — Plato
It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside. — Michele Borba
My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life. — Marion Jones

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