Parenting Quotes - Page 4

• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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• Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

  Peter Krause

  Forgiving, Generations, Lasts

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• A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Heart, You Hurt Me

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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

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• Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Children, Fall

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.343, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Good Night, Baby

  "Fictional character: Jennifer Jareau". "Criminal Minds" ("Boxed In", Season 10, Episode 5), October 29, 2014.

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• A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Family, Children, Giving

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• We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Funny, Screw Ups

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

  Bill Ayers

  Kids, Compassion, Trying

  "An Unconditional Embrace". Interview with Gabriel Lyon, www.tolerance.org. Spring 1998.

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• Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Pride, Somewhere Else

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2009). “Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.152, Harper Collins

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Fortune Cookie, Way

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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• ~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~

  Kelli Williams

  Husband, Kids, Thinking

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• It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

  George Barna

  Spiritual, Jobs, Children

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• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Daughter, Children

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

  Bob Harper

  Children, Kids, Role Models

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• If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Children

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• You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

  Tina Fey

  Inspiring, Humor, Thinking

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• A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

  Steve Martin

  Fathers Day, Baby, Dad

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• Men are what their mothers made them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Conduct of Life "Fate" (1860)

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• If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Growing Up, Heartache

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.35

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• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Want, Becoming

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• Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, World

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• Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

  Tim Allen

  Friendship, Teamwork, Mom

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

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