Parenting Quotes - Page 9

• A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

  Bill Vaughan

  Happiness, Baby, Children

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• We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.

  Mike Bickle

  Leadership, Christian, Prayer

  Mike Bickle (2014). “Growing in Prayer”, p.16, Charisma Media

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• Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Children, Focus, Parenthood

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• Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

  Bill Cosby

  Motivational, Baby, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2009

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• Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teacher, Peace, Children

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• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

  P. D. James

  Children, Happy Kid, Giving

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

  Rose Kennedy

  Children, Women, Interesting

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• Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Children, Believe, Parenthood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Baby, Children

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• What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mom, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2009

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• Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Wise

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Single Child, Only Child

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

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• I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Children

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior.

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Character, Done

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2009). “Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.115, Zondervan

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• A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

  Jane D. Hull

  Positive, Success, Children

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• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

  Lin Yutang

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Family

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2010

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• Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

  Ron Funches

  Confidence, Children, Caring

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• The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

  Erich Fromm

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Humorous

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Oct 04, 2010

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• The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Woods, Ritalin

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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