Quotes about Parenting

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

Parents don't care about their children; they're emotional, egotistical, selfish, and screw up their kids! Pastors knowingly mislead their flock by telling them that they can continue to sin and yet know God - because they themselves still sin. And we all know that the government does not care at all for the people.

I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.

I love my kids; I'm very close to all three of them.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.

Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E.

I stroke the hair of my brilliant, strong, independent girl. She is a woman now, with her mother's beauty and brains and spirit, but she will always be the little girl who lit up when she saw me, who squealed when I'd bombard her with kisses, who couldn't fall back asleep after a nightmare unless Daddy held her hand.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we're always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they'll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.