Parenting Quotes

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

Norma Shearer

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Eddie Vedder

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Susie Bright

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

Robert Gardner

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

Jodi Picoult

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.

Beverly Cleary

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

Mel Carnahan

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

Mayim Bialik

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

George Herbert Walker Bush

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

Kelly LeBrock

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Jodi Picoult

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Anthony Powell

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

Rita Rudner

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

Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.

L. L. Hendren

Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.

Dr. Henker

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Jane Fonda

Don't set your wit against a child.

Jonathan Swift