- “Words are prophesy. Prophesy positive words into your life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “The greatest joy a parent can have and an affirmation of being an outstanding role model is when your child tells you she wants to be just like you. So be the most outstanding you because when you become a parent one day, your children will be proud to be just like you. – Kailin Gow on Life, Balance, Parenting, and Being a Role Model” ― Kailin Gow
- A parents words become the children’s thoughts. Bill Masur
- “The only power that can effect transformations of the order (of Jesus) is love. It remained for the 20th century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine- the imago dei, image of god…And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case, love’s bombardment. The process begins in infancy, where a mother’s initially unilateral loving smile awakens love in her baby and as coordination develops, elicits its answering smile… A loving human being is not produced by exhortations, rules and threats. Love can only take root in children when it comes to them- initially and most importantly from nurturing parents. Ontogenetically speaking, love is an answering phenomenon. It is literally a response.” ― Huston Smith, The World’s Religions
- “What is life? Life is living in this moment, experiencing and experimenting but experience isn’t life. Life is reflecting and meditating but reflection isn’t life. Life is helping and guiding but philanthropy isn’t life. Life is eating and drinking but food isn’t life. Life is reading and dancing but art isn’t life. Life is kissing and pleasuring but sex isn’t life. Life is winning and losing but competition isn’t life. Life is loving and caring but love isn’t life. Life is birthing and nurturing but children aren’t life. Life is letting go and surrendering but death isn’t life. Life is all these things but all these things aren’t life. Life is always more.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- The people who first feed us, hold us, play with us, and talk with us help us to begin to understand who we are and who we may become. A child’s very birth cries out for acceptance and care. Without these early on, he cannot survive. Fred Rogers
- “Parents plant their unfulfilled desires deep into the subconscious mind of their children. It happens in such a subtle and indirect way that children start identifying those desires as their own.” ― Shunya
- “I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate – just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be invited to it and reminded of it.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
- To let the child do as he likes, when he has not yet developed any powers of control, is to betray the idea of freedom. Maria Montessori
- What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. Rodney Dangerfield
- Your kids are wildflowers. Give them the right environment. Maxime Lagacé
- A child learns quicker to talk than to be silent. Norwegian proverb
- Don’t teach your sons to obey you. Teach them to think for themselves. @LifeMathMoney
- We’re raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment. Brené Brown
- “The mother is the child’s first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life.” ― Swami Dhyan Giten
- Tip: It’s important parents take little “time outs” for themselves too. Even if you feel pretty guilty when you return 14 years later. Ryan Reynolds
- “The Dream I Dream For You, My Child…I hope you search for four-leaf clovers,grin back at Cheshire moons,breathe in the springtime breezes,and dance with summer loons.I hope you gaze in wide-eyed wonderat the buzzing fireflyand rest beneath the sunlit treesas butterflies fly by.I hope you gather simple treasuresof pebbles, twigs, and leavesand marvel at the fragile webthe tiny spider weaves.I hope you read poetry and fairy talesand sing silly, made-up songs,and pretend to be a superherorighting this world’s wrongs.I hope your days are filled with magicand your nights with happy dreams,and you grow up knowing that happiness is found in simple things.The dream I dream for you, my child,as you discover, learn, and grow,is that you find these simple joyswherever in life you go.” ― L.R. Knost
- Your children will reap what you sow. Virgil
- Every child should be taught that life is unfair so that we don’t end up with a bunch of adults who act like the world owes them something. Preethi Kasireddy
- “Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.” ― Swami Dhyan Giten
- There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. Chinese proverb
- “Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.” ― Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
- Showing an active interest in what a child is doing is sometimes the best compliment of all. Fred Rogers
- The best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. José Saramago (The Cave)
- When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. The Talmud
- “The parent is protector and trainer, but never the ultimate teacher. Every parent is responsible for teaching their kid basic moral conduct, manners, the difference between love and hate, and right from wrong. However, after maturity, the child must set off to seek knowledge on their own. Religion is never to be forced. And you cannot threaten your child with hell and tell them your religion is the only right way. There is no one right way. The many ways to the Creator are as varied as the colors of a rainbow.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he’ll want to do. The less you test him, the quicker he will learn and the more he’ll want to learn. Knowledge is the most precious gift you can give your child. Give it as generously as you give him food.” ― Glenn Doman, How to Teach Your Baby Math
- There are not perfect parents just as there are no perfect children. Fred Rogers
- More kids are ruined by the behavior of their parents than by the amount they inherit. Children learn from your actions. Warren Buffett
- “There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when the life you create becomes the help in the lives of countless other humans.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting