Parenting Quotes - Page 17

• Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Hazards, Moral Hazard, Incentives

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• To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Peace, Buddhist

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• I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

  Roseanne Barr

  Jobs, Kids, The End Of The Day

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• All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

  Benjamin Spock

  Baby, Children, Learning

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• You may have tangible wealth untold:
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  Richer than I you can never be
  I had a Mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Reading

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

  Virginia Satir

  Children, Nice, Romance

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

  Plato

  Children, Plato, Perfect

  Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.82, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Separation, Should

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• You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you.

  John Lennon

  Teenage, Children, Hate

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• Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

  Ewan McGregor

  Sorry, Kids, Phones

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• The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

  Regina Brett

  Views, Focus, Secret

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Hope, Wisdom

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• I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

  Norma Shearer

  Mother, Father, Taught

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

  Mayim Bialik

  Style, Matter, Complicated

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

  Stephen King

  Admitting, Uptight, Sun

  Commencement Address, University of Maine at Orono, May 07, 2005.

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• When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Children, Humorous

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• Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Mom, Mother

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• When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  Nancy Friday

  Relationship, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

  Plato

  Leadership, Children, Humorous

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• My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

  Roberto Benigni

  Fathers Day, Mother, Grateful

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• No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

  Shirley Williams

  Children, Stories, Frozen

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• Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Humorous, Youth

  C. S. Lewis (1992). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Children, Cat, Should Have

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Education, Causes, Inquiry

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.9, New World Library

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