Top 1200 Good Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.
I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!
I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought about as a kid but then remembered as a parent.
Although my grandmother was a strict parent and abided my grandfather's kosher diet, as a Nana, she had grown away from religion and was almost unbelievably permissive.
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.
Ever since I became a parent, time moves far too quickly. My vision always feels like I'm wearing giant kaleidoscope-goggles.
Since, I have become a parent... I feel if you sit down and get through your child and use one's understanding to teach them something... Is the easiest way.
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
As a parent, you're struggling to find stuff that you think is suitable for the kids, but also stuff that you'd like to watch with them.
For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.
If, during childhood, you were fortunate to have a parent who drilled into you, 'You can be anything you want to be if you try hard enough at it,' and then supported you in actions, that is something you take with you all your life.
If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.
There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.
Being a parent to my daughters, son to my parents, and friends to many people, I would wish for a society that's fair to everyone, that's free of prejudice and as non-divisive as possible.
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.
Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?" Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?
Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off.
The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!
The thing that always struck me about 'Jonny Quest' is: What kind of parent brings his kid to the Amazon so that yetis can throw boulders at him?
Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.
The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.
For men, the Right Time to become a parent seems to be any time after reaching the age of consent.
My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.
Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.
The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the childs viewing to a certain point.
What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.
I understand every parent has a different risk threshold. And I realize life is full of risks, even including harmful chemicals that we interact with on a daily basis.
Growing up with a parent in the army, I saw firsthand the challenges our service members face when transitioning to new jobs after time in the military.
For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have...
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
The most transgressive, the most taboo, the darkest act that could happen is a parent killing their own child.
I'll never have the seniority of lions of the Senate who've been in office for decades. What I do have is a lifetime of experience as a parent and activist, small business owner, and lieutenant governor of Minnesota.
Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.
I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.
As a parent, you just want to really make sure your kids understand what you are trying to say as much as their maturity level will allow them to.
Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way, all parents are entrepreneurs.
What I most hope is that Kelsey and I can improve our communications and truly co-parent our two wonderful children.
Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.
Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.
