Quotes about Parenting - Inspiring Parenting Quotes

Quotes about Parenting ...

Copyright © 2008 by Laura Ramirez, author of the award-winning parenting book Keepers of the Children: Native American Wisdom and Parenting which teaches parents how to raise children to develop their strengths so their lives become an expression of strength and integrity.

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

~ Robert Fulghum

The most important thing that parents can teach
their children is how to get along without them.

~ Frank A. Clark

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

Children behave as well as they are treated.

~ Unknown

Quotes about Parenting

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped
being children.

~ Mignon McLaughlin

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege,
than the raising of the next generation.

~ C. Everett Koop

Kids spell love T I M E.

~ John Crudele

Your children will become what you are; so be what you
want them to be.

~ David Bly

Quotes about Parenting

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of
which you will always find forgiveness.

~ Honore de Balzac

~ Frank Pittman

There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking
about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children.
This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a
role model, not a supermodel.

~ Astrid Alauda

Quotes about Parenting

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of
the parents.

~ Carl Jung

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical ... it requires
the most intense love on the mother's side,
yet this very love must help the child grow
away from the mother and become fully independent.

~ Erich Fromm

All the time a person is a child he is ... learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent, he becomes
predominantly a parent reliving his childhood.

~ Benjamin Spock

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply
having children makes them a mother which is as
absurd as believing that having a piano makes one
a musician.

~ Sydney J. Harris

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more
often than not anonymously handed on the creative
spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never
hoped to see ... or like a sealed letter they could
not plainly read.

~ Alice Walker

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