Good Parent Quotes

• When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

  Cindy Crawford

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

  Diana Loomans

  Running, Stars, Children

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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• Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

  David Whyte

  Children, Heart, Parent

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Daughter, Children

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Friday, Mother

  "Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

  Walt Disney

  Children, Parenting, Evil

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Parenting, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 21, 2011

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• Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

  Morton Hunt

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

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• Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

  Thomas Bray

  Appreciation, Children, Parenting

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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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• Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

  Umberto Eco

  Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mother, Baby, Children

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.

  Michelle Obama

  Emotional, Parent, Energy

  "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

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• I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Two, Parent, Advantage

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• You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Unconditional Love, Thinking

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• There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Children, Distance

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey in O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Reality, Parent, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

  Anthony Edwards

  Kids, Thinking, Expectations

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• Lemurs are good parents but they do it in different ways. I originally studied father care. I was very interested in that and we saw that a lot of these animals that lived in pairs and the father wasn't doing anything at all for the first month. But then suddenly, when the baby got to be a certain weight then the dads chipped in and started carrying the babies which was very nice. And then if there was twins or triplets then they helped.

  Patricia Wright

  Baby, Dad, Nice

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