Parenting Quotes

• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.          Frank A. Clark
• All children behave as well as they are treated. Jan Hunt
• Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him. Dr. Henker
• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.                 C. Everett Koop
• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. David Bly
  
• A misbehaving child is a discouraged child. Rudolf Dreikurs
  
• In a thousand subtle ways, by the tone of voice and by action, we indicate to the child that we consider him inept, unskilled, and generally inferior. Rudolf Dreikurs
  
• Genuine happiness is not dependent upon the attention of others but arises from within oneself as a result of self-sufficiency. Rudlof Dreikurs
  
• Whenever we admonish a child to “be a good boy” we imply that we expect him to consider being bad and that we lack faith in his desire to be good. Rudolf Dreikurs
• Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum
  
• Kids spell love T-I-M-E. John Crudele
  
• It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it. Robert Brault
  
• 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
  

Last but not least…

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