- One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation. Fred Rogers
- You can’t be wrong if you teach your kids playing, creating, listening, but most of all, loving. Maxime Lagacé
- “If you want happy kids, work at being happy parents” ― Bobby Temps
- “You don’t stop dreaming and going after what you want when you have kids, you go harder. It is a lot easier for your kids to listen to you when your actions precede your words. When they see you moving forward and overcoming the various obstacles that come your way.” ― Sope Agbelusi
- Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children. Ali Fazal
- “Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and dignity.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
- A lot of parents will do anything for their kids, except let them be themselves. Banksy
- At every stage of parenting, the worries of the previous stage feel madly exaggerated. Alain de Botton (As new parents, you will receive tons of advices…)
- “Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question– ‘Is this all?” ― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
- “Daydreamer, dream on. Never forget that you are a one-of-a-kind, never-before-seen, gift-to-the-world, and you’ve got a special purpose for being here. Raising children is beautiful and chaotic and wonder-filled, but you’ll have a lot of life to live once your children are out of the early stages of intense need for your time and attention. So dream your dreams, and journal your thoughts and ideas, and don’t be afraid to embrace the present, secure in the knowledge that your time will come.” ― L.R. Knost
- “If your kid needs a role model and you ain’t it, you’re both fucked.” ― George Carlin, Brain Droppings
- We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. Alice Walker
- “Positive Words Are Blessings – Kailin Gow, Amazon Lee Adventures” ― Kailin Gow
- Mothers try to slow her sons manhood. Fathers try to speed his sons manhood. Alex Sauer
- “That’s the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You’ll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and — in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love — you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.” ― Ursula Hegi
- The young and the old don’t understand each other perfectly, but the old understand the young better than the young understand the old. The old have been young, but the young haven’t been old yet. Paul Graham
- “Like a loving parent who watches their child learning to walk, the Divine is the ultimate parent letting us experiment, fall down, hurt ourselves, cry, get back up, and try again. God allows us to learn even when it may hurt, yet we are never abandoned.” ― Tara Bianca, The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
- Best parenting advice I can give: Get your own sh*t together so you pass on as little of your own baggage as possible. The less weight your kids start with the more opportunities they’ll have. Mark Allan Bovair
- More kids are ruined by the behavior of their parents than by the amount they inherit. Children learn from your actions. Warren Buffett
- “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” ― Anne Frank
- Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank
- The task isn’t to tell children that they are amazing, it’s to model for them how one might live a very decent, self-accepting, humour filled and confident life knowing one isn’t anything of the sort – but fortunately, no one else is either. Alain de Botton (See also: How to Lend a Child Confidence, theschooloflife.com)
- “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” ― Benjamin Spock
- We’re a nation of exhausted and overstressed adults raising overscheduled children. Brené Brown
- “An environment-based education movement–at all levels of education–will help students realize that school isn’t supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.” ― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
- What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then. Fred Rogers
- It all starts in childhood. Neurons are wired together by our early childhood experiences. If you want a better world, teach the world better parenting. Neil Strauss
- “Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.” ― Ray Romano
- “One day your child will make a mistake or a bad choice and run to you instead of away from you and in that moment you will know the immense value of peaceful, positive, respectful parenting.” ― L.R. Knost
- I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them. Eleanor Roosevelt