25 INSPIRATIONAL PARENTING QUOTES LEADING BY EXAMPLE “We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.” - Roy L. Smith “Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.” - H. Jackson Brown “My father didn’t tell me how to live, he lived, and let me watch him do it.” - Clarence Budinton Kelland “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” - Robert Fulghum “To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” - Josh Billings THE IMPORTANCE OF SPENDING TIME WITH OUR KIDS “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today”- Anonymous “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” - O. A. Battista “Kids spell love T-I-M-E.” – John Crudele TEACHING RESPONSIBILITY “If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”- Abigail Van Buren “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” -Robert A. Heinlein “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” - Roger Lewin “It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.” - Robert Brault AFFIRMATION OF LOVE “Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.”- Gary Smalley “What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.” - P.D. James “If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.” - Haim Ginott “Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”- Virginia Satir “That best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” - William Wordsworth “Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.” - Alvin Price OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS PARENTS “The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.” - Frank Pittman “Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.” - C. Everett Koop “The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.” - Shakespeare THE JOY OF PARENTING “You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.” - William D. Tammeus “If I had my child to raise all over again, I’d build self-esteem first, and the house later. I’d finger-paint more, and point the finger less. I would do less correcting and more connecting. I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes. I’d take more hikes and fly more kites. I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play. I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars. I’d do more hugging and less tugging.“- Diane Loomans THE REWARD OF PARENTING “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” - John Bowring “Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.” - James A. Brewer
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