Parents Quotes

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
Robert MacNeil

Thatís sort of a clichÈ about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.
Heather Armstrong

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.
Amy Vanderbilt

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
Barbara Schapiro

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other

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.

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Dr. Haim Ginott

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles DeLint

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.
Raymond Duncan







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