Parents Quotes

I do not believe that children should have to pay for the shortcoming and inequities of the society into which they were born. I do not think that children should have to pay for the real or supposed sins of their parents. And I think it would be shortsighted of a society to produce, by […]

You will always be your child’s favorite toy.

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. All women alike fight fiercely for a child.

Where yet was ever found a mother, Who’d give her booby for another?

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Here all mankind is equal: rich and poor alike, they love their children.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. for they have their own thoughts. You […]

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it’s too hard.

Unblessed is the son who does not honor his parents; but if reverent and obedient to them, he will receive the same from his own children.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.