- “Love is at the root of everything. All learning, all parenting, all relationships. Love or the lack of it.” ― Fred Rogers
- A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. Frank A. Clark
- Please think of the children first. If you ever have anything to do with their entertainment, their food, their toys, their custody, their child care, their health care, their education — listen to the children, learn about them, learn from them. Think of the children first. Fred Rogers
- “Of course, everyone’s parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. ” ― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
- We’re raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment. Brené Brown
- “What is the job of a parent, but to teach a child she has worth so that one day she can transform herself into whatever she wants.” ― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl
- “When my kids tell me “I can’t do this dad”, I smile and say it’s okay. We sit down and we talk about it, I share some of my experiences with them and also let them know it’s okay to fail but it is not okay to give before you have tried.One of the primary roles of a parent is to lend your kids some of your confidence enabling them to get their own.” ― Sope Agbelusi
- Parenthood is the opiate of the masses. Chuck Palahniuk
- “The sacred gift of parenthood is inscribe in the universal words ‘Papa’ and ‘Mama’.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “When we aren’t curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.” -The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding” ― Kirsten Siggins, The Power of Curiosity: How to Have Real Conversations that create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
- “When you’ve had one call after another and your little one is tugging on your shirt, remember what really matters. When the milk is splattered all over the floor and those little eyes are looking at you for your reaction, remember what really matters. It takes 5 minutes to clean up spilled milk; it takes much longer to clean up a broken spirit.” ― Rebecca Eanes, The Newbie’s Guide to Positive Parenting
- A child learns quicker to talk than to be silent. Norwegian proverb
- “I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. The Talmud
- “Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.” ― Lisa Wingate
- “Instead of beating yourself up when you make the same old mistakes again and again, break promises to yourself, or fall into destructive habits, close your eyes and silently whisper through time into your past, “I’m here. I’m listening. What do you need? Where does it hurt? How can I help?” Then listen for echoes of pain and loss and fear and unmet needs. Let yourself feel and experience those emotions as they surface. And then treat yourself as tenderly as you would a sad and scared child. Healing old hurts can only begin when the children we once were feel safe enough to speak their hearts to the adults we are now.” ― L.R. Knost
- “One of the grave problems of controlling parents is that the children grow up believing they are dependent on that control. ” ― Omar Cherif
- “Research shows that what works and is healthy for adults also works well for children, if adjusted to be age-appropriate. Children, like adults, do not suffer from a deficiency of white sugar, white flour, junk food, or processed foods. A growing child as well as an adult is hurt by junk foods and benefited by healthy foods.” ― Gabriel Cousens M.D., Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children
- “In its complexity and sensuality, nature invites exploration, direct contact, and experience. But it also inspires a sense of awe, a glimpse of what is still “un-Googleable” . . . life’s mystery and magnitude.” ― Kim John Payne, Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
- “Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: “You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don’t find time to practice, one of the three is missing.” ― Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel Dakini Power Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan
- Evidence of good parenting: the child has no desire to be famous. Alain de Botton
- To be a parent is to be chief designer of a product more advanced than any technology and more interesting than the greatest work of art. Alain de Botton
- “Self-care is how you take your power back.” ― Lalah Delia
- First rule of parenting (and being a good person): You can pretend you care but you can’t pretend you are there. James Altucher
- “So, your best defense is knowledge. It really is power, as they say…The more you know, the more easily you will develop your own philosophies about child rearing. When you have your facts straight, and when you have a parenting plan, you will be able to respond with confidence to those who are well-meaning but offering contrary or incorrect advice.” ― Elizabeth Pantley
- The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. Peggy O’Mara
- “Most children have been cursed with parents who have forgotten the joy of walking barefoot.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Admitting that their child is, or can be, more educated than them is the closest most parents are willing to get to admitting that their child is, or can be, smarter or wiser than them.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “If your kid needs a role model and you ain’t it, you’re both fucked.” ― George Carlin, Brain Droppings
- “To unite this whole world with the thread of acceptance and harmony, may sound like a titanic task, but all it takes is one generation of conscientious and responsible citizens in each nation – if only these handful of young members of the society around the world take up the responsibility to raise, not citizens of a nation, but citizens of a planet, then no force in the world can keep the process of unification of humans manifesting in front of our eyes.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty