100+ (BEST) Quotes on Parenting Help Children to Develop

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Parenting is an adventure, a joy and at times a challenge. It never has to be boring. These quotes on parenting make it more fun and interesting while reminding you of its importance.

Here is the collection of quotes from the world’s greatest saints, gurus and experts on parenting.

Parenting is a tough venture. Everyone has their own way of doing things, but it takes a special breed of human to take on the challenge of raising children. A lot of us have to learn as we go along. Hopefully these quotes help you in some way.

Quotes on Parenting

What a pleasure it is to help you enjoy parenting! Raise your children…and be happy!

Parenting is not an easy job, this is why we are reading a lot of quotes about it. Here you can find more than 100+ quotes about parenting.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. -Sigmund Freud

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. -Ron Taffel

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process. -John F. Kennedy

A mother who is really a mother is never free. -Honore de Balzac

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. -Carl Jung

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. -Billy Graham

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. -Plato

Mothers – especially single mothers – are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation’s children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families’ well-being. -Evan Bayh

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. -Charles R. Swindoll

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. -George Bernard Shaw

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. -Voltaire

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. -Bill Cosby

Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy. -Liam Neeson

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. -Henry Ward Beecher

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. -Erma Bombeck

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he’s genuinely interested in what she’s going through. -Harry Connick, Jr.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. -Miriam Makeba

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. -Garrison Keillor

Quotes on Parenting Skills

The best parenting is a judicious combination of relaxation and discipline. Parenting is an ongoing process, filled with challenges and rewards, disappointments and achievements – it’s not easy being a parent! But many people need to know these quotes on parenting skills to handle their children well.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull

There’s really no point in having children if you’re not going to be home enough to father them. -Anthony Edwards

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -Buddha

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

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus. -Todd Tiahrt

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt. -Olivia Newton-John

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. -Laura Schlessinger

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. -Todd Tiahrt

Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. -Nadia Boulanger

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. -Quentin Crisp

A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it. -Frank A. Clark

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. -John Boehner

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. -Franklin P. Jones

It’s hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. -Patricia Heaton

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship. -Connie Sellecca

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. -Miguel de Cervantes

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. -Benjamin Spock

If you’re asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. -Bruce Jenner

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad. -Abigail Van Buren

It’s a huge change for your body. You don’t even want to look in the mirror after you’ve had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei. -Cindy Crawford

Parenting Quotes Psychology

I have put together a collection of the best parenting psychology quotes from all around the web. Some of these are well known while others are pretty obscure. I hope you enjoy this collection and find it useful in your journey as a parent

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. -Alvin Toffler

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I’m not working I’m cool with the Teletubbies. -Clive Owen

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. -Benjamin Spock

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

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

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy. -Kamisese Mara

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. -Robbie Coltrane

It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. -Anne Sullivan

What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. -Marjorie Holmes

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. -Tina Turner

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. -John Sculley

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don’t want to go to PTA meetings. -Stevie Nicks

I think I’m going to have to live vicariously through my daughter’s rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. -Brooke Shields

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. -Lynn Johnston

That’s my ideal day, time with my boys. -Kenny G

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? -Ellen Goodman

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My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. -John H. Johnson

Home life’s great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I’ve reached this sort of wonderful precipice. -Ryan Phillippe

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free. -John Walters

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. -Coretta Scott King

Parenting Quotes Love

Take a look here in this post, you’ll find all kinds of things that will help you out with the job of parenting.

I’d just as soon stay home and raise babies. -June Allyson

My mom’s a Catholic, and my dad’s a Jew, and they didn’t want anything to do with anything. -Isabelle Huppert

I wasn’t very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children’s birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos. -Jill Clayburgh

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. -Roberto Benigni

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. -Jennifer Aniston

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn’t because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. -Bill Cosby

My father wasn’t really involved and my mom is the light in my life. -Marion Jones

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. -Bill Cosby

What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. -Virginia Satir

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny. -Ben Stein

I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting. -Barbara Bush

I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. -Liza Minnelli

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there. -Robert Cormier

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. -Allan Bloom

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. -Ogden Nash

Autism is a neurological disorder. It’s not caused by bad parenting. It’s caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain’s computer cables that hook up the different brain departments. -Temple Grandin

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Education, like neurosis, begins at home. -Milton Sapirstein

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says ‘no,’ then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom. -Marie Osmond

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the ’90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together… something we don’t spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. -Alan Thicke

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.-Reese Witherspoon

Positive Parenting Quotes

These quotes on parenting are meant to kick start a conversation around parenting and inspire you to do things differently.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. -Andrew Shue

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. -Marcelene Cox

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. -Gena Lee Nolin

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears. -Phil McGraw

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

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. -Robert Orben

I have three daughters, so I can’t be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids – especially daughters – they know how to work you. They’re a lot smarter than we are, that’s for sure. But I’ll be more tough on their boyfriends. -Tim McGraw

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out. -Matthew Broderick

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. -Meryl Streep

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I’ve done my job. -Roseanne Barr

Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult. -David Frost

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

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. -Christy Turlington

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. -Phyllis Diller

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter

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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. -Arnold H. Glasow

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. -Gloria Steinem

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson

Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. -Russell Baker

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents. -Jane D. Hull

Final Words

Parenting quotes are an amazing way to give you a boost at those moments when you feel like you’ve hit one of parenting’s many walls. Parenting is hard and it just keeps getting harder.

Parenting is full of surprises. It may also take a toll on our patience. So if you find yourself feeling a bit defeated, cynical, or resentful, we hope these quotes can help.