Top 1200 Parent Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If your child has something creative they really want to do, it's up to you, their parent, to help make that happen.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together.

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

Some husbands think, "This is my wife," or a parent thinks "This is my child." From a spiritual perspective, this is a misconception. The higher truth is: "This wife is God's beloved daughter, entrusted in my care. And the way I serve God is by giving her respect, protection, appreciation and empowerment. This is what God wants me to give his child."

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.

Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.

Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't do it," we say to the child, run away from home... You must follow your dream. You will never be joyful if you don't. Your dream may change, but you've got to stay after your dreams. You have to.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures that will give these youngsters a fighting chance. When a child or parent faces an uncertain disease like cancer, they can find hope at St. Jude - a place where miracles can and do happen.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

When a child is out of control, he or she needs you, the parent, to make them feel safe.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

The love of a child is different from any other type of love on the planet. And being loved by your children is a love that is immense. I'm always so overwhelmed by how much my children love me. I think the best part of being a parent is feeling the love of a child.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.

If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

As a parent, I know I speak for millions when I say that every child deserves to grow up in a stable, loving home.

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

Money cannot give a life back; a child or a parent. I try to cherish every moment for this reason.

I think any parent can imagine how difficult it would be to watch your child suffer.

I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn't have to share my parent's attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

One of the most effective strategies to make your child more self-control is the weekly giving of allowance or pocket money as an opportunity for parents to teach self-control and model self-control. So rather than just handing the child the money and leaving it at that, the parent hands them a modest amount that has to be managed through the week, sits with the child and takes the time to anticipate what's going to be coming up next week, what the child would like to do and helps them to make choices and understand the limited amount of money they have.

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life.

Unfortunately, when you're a parent and you completely love your child, it can make you act a bit crazy.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.