Great Parenting Quotes!

For years I have been compiling quotes about family, quotes about parenting, quotes about parents and quote about children. As a parenting educator, I find these quotes inspiring for both myself and more importantly, for you, the parent who is reading this blog!


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The more you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
– Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!



The more you read, the more you know.

The more you know, the smarter you grow.

The smarter you grow, the stronger your voice

when taking a stand or making a choice.

Added to my Facebook page by my friend

who happens to be a teacher, Kerry Crawford

 

Cleaning house while your kids are still growing up is

like shoveling the walk before it starts snowing.

~ Phyllis Diller


If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. ~ Brian Tracy


They may forget what you said

but they will never forget how you made them feel.

~ Carol Buchner


While we teach our children about life, they teach us what life is all about (seen on a wall plaque).


It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life, we can never help another without helping ourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson


My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? ~Erma Bombeck


Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself. – Wayne Dyer


Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so they have very little time with their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.” – Mother Theresa


Giving birth is like taking your lower lip

and forcing it over your head.

~ Carol Burnett


The level of cooperation parents get from their children is usually
equal to the level of connection children feel with their parents.
– Pam Leo


All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~ LEO TOLSTOY, Anna Karenina


When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking

When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you hang up my first painting on the refrigerator, and I wanted to paint another one.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you feed a stray cat, and I thought it was good to be kind to animals.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you make my favorite cake for me, and I knew that little things are special things.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I heard you say a prayer, and I believed there is a God I could always talk to.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I felt you kiss me goodnight, and I felt loved.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw that you cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could be.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I LOOKED….and wanted to say thanks for all the things I saw when you thought I wasn’t looking.

Thanks to Connie Back From http://www.heartquotes.net/emotions.html


The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human understanding.

~ Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution

http://www.heartquotes.net/emotions.html for more HeartMath quotes


Don’t just parent your kids, develop them. ~ Robin Sharma


1.       When you grow up you can do whatever you want to do,

2.       When you do something, make sure you do it well,

3.       Never give up; it is stunning how far you can get if you don’t give up,

4.       Never forget how much I love you.

Robin Sharma’s words to his kids each night.


:) “Wherever you go, no matter the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” ~Anthony J. D’Angelo


Environment is more important than heredity. ~ Karl Menninger


“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” -Chinese Proverb


Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. ~ Alfred A. Montapert


The only corner of the universe that you can be certain of improving is yourself. ~ Huxley


When you are in the presence of a child, you are their teacher. ~ Unknown


The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. ~ Tom Bodett


When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly—so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception. – Henry Ward Beecher


Always when judging
Who people are,
Remember to footnote
The words “So far.”
~Robert Brault


‎The child is always right. Find out the valid reason for any disturbing behavior so you can respond to her need and eliminate the cause.”

Naomi Aldort


I think we are underestimating the power of technology in rewiring young people’s brains. Philip Zimbardo   Interesting comment given the amount of plasticity we now know the brain has.   (My editor’s note.)


Present-oriented kids know about the consequences (teen girl knows unprotected sex is likely to lead to pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease ) but knowledge never feeds back to change behavior.  Philip Zimbardo


60% had family dinners, 50 years ago. Now 20% -  Philip Zimbardo


Quotes by children:

I don’t like the cold:you have to wear too many clothes,you can’t go swimming,what’s the goodness in that? – Isabel 7, Submitted via her mother on Twitter.