Quotes about Parenting

See many parents, particularly mothers with small children, often frustrated in their desire to accomplish a lot because all they seem to do is meet the needs of little children all day. Remember, frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

Now if I were sitting at that funeral we visualized earlier, and one of my children was about to speak, I would want his life to represent the victory of teaching, training, and disciplining with love over a period of years rather than the battle scars of quick fix skirmishes. I would want his heart and mind to be filled with the pleasant memories of

We saw our natural role as being to affirm, enjoy, and value him. We also conscientiously worked on our motives and cultivated internal sources of security so that our own feelings of worth were not dependent on our children's "acceptable" behavior.

As one successful parent said about raising children, 'Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

if "success" were important in any area of life, it was supremely important in our role as parents.

As one successful parent said about raising children, "Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

Our image of ourselves, and our role as good, caring parents, was even deeper than our image of our son and perhaps influenced

I'm convinced that too often parents are also trapped in the management paradigm, thinking of control, efficiency, and rules instead of direction, purpose, and family feeling. And leadership is even more lacking in our personal lives. We're into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.

you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent.

It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it. If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee. If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.

If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent.

But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.