Parenting Quotes and Sayings

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings

Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).
Bill Cosby

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren

Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.
Gary Smalley

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

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?
Kevin Heath

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.
Richard L. Evans

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
Shakespeare

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.
John Andrew Holmes

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
Pearl Buck

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher

Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
Dr. Henker

Parents: People who spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and the rest of the time when they will turn in.
Eleanor Graham Vance

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!
Kevin Heath

When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.
Japanese Quote

Parenting is an important job. Parents are providers, teachers, supervisers, friends, protectors, referees and enterntainers.
Remez Sasson

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher