P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world. The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity, and their peace all find common roots in the teaching of children in the home.”
“Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."”
Source: The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living
“Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.”
“Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.”
“Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.”
“Parents must teach their children the fear of God.”
“Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.”
“Parents need to demonstrate a commitment to an orderly transfer of authority from themselves to their adolescent.”
Source: Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: A Complete Guide to Parenting Adolescents and Launching Them Into the World
“Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."”
“Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.”
“Parents need to realize that the world is getting complicated every second. With new problems, new diseases, new habits. They have to realize the vast probability of their kids being victims of this age, this complicated era. Your kids could be exposed to problems that no kind of therapy can help. Your kids could be brainwashed by themselves to believe in insane theories that drive them crazy. Most kids will go through this stage. The lucky ones will understand. They will grow out of them. The most unlucky ones will live in these problems. Grow in them and never move forward. They will cut themselves, overdose on drugs, take up excessive drinking and smoking, for the slightest problems in their lives.
You can't blame these kids for not being thankful or satisfied with what they have. Their mentality eludes them from the reality.”
Source: COLOMBO STREETS
“Parents need to see that every situation that their kids find themselves in is a teaching situation, and they need to take the time to explore cost and effect. So talking to your children, explaining things to children as to why things happen in the world. Getting them to see cost and relationships between events is the best way to increase comprehension skills. Daynette Gardiner, the best School Psychologist in The Bahamas.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“Parents need to teach their children and we need to call each other out. There is no nothing cool about being mean or vile to others. Especially where a lot of people are suffering from depression.”
“Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.”
“parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.”
“Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that.”
“Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.”
“Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth of the parents love for a handicapped child. Perhaps there is some comparison in the fact that there is no less love in families for the helpless infant who must be fed, bathed, and diapered than for the older but still dependent members. We love those we serve and who need us.”
Source: Reach Up for the Light
“Parents of medically fragile children find themselves becoming experts in lots of different areas, including laws and regulations, research and treatments, and the various specialists that support the health of their children.”
Source: Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing
“Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.”
“Parents of students from lower social economic status families may find it challenging to be actively involved in their children's education due to long working hours and financial difficulties.”
“Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.”
“Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it well whentheir grown children need to regress and repair. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can catch you when you start to fall. When you are in disgrace, defeat, and despair, home may be the safest place to hide.”
“Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.”
“Parents often complain that their adult childhood won't let them change. Children don't want their parents to move from the home in which they grew up, or convert their old bedrooms into offices. They refuse to take their cartons out of the attic or basement and become angry at even the suggestion that their parents might show them away. We are more focused on our parents as the repositories of our childhoods, which we want to hold on to, than on the sacrifices they made for us that they might no longer want to make—such as using their own bedroom or the dining rooms as an office so we could have a bedroom.”
Source: I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
“Parents often forgoet that their children, once grown, deserved to have the living of their lives.”
Source: The Best-Laid Plans
“Parents often give middle names just so that later, when they're yelling at the kid, they can drag it out. Henry David Thoreau, you come in here this instant!”
“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.”
“Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were so fragile and parenting so difficult to learn, where would we all be as adults?”
“Parents ought to pray for their children.”
“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.”
“Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.”
“Parents pray for your children.”
“Parents, pray that God may crown your home with grace and mercy.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.”
“Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering their children as more important than themselves, and not dying to self to become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.”
“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.”
Source: Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times
“Parents seem to collect pain. They never seem to get rid of the original complaints completely, they just get new ones that become more urgent. It’s kind of like Tetris. When you’re young you can make the shapes slip in right and tight and they make a line, then disappear. But when you get old, the shit comes at you faster and faster and you can’t stop it stacking up. Then your grid’s full and you’re finished.”
Source: Bonesland
“Parents set themselves up for failure
by giving their kids names that mean too much.
Some people put so much weight in names, and how is a baby
supposed to carry
anything so heavy
as their parents’ dreams?”
Source: Ariel Crashes a Train
“Parents should accept all the variations that children come in. If children feel accepted by their parents and have the freedom to express themselves in ways that feel natural to them, they are much less likely to be depressed. That should be more important than fitting neatly into a box.”
Source: Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes
“Parents should also question much of the contemporary emphasis on special materials and equipment for learning in a child's environment. A clutter of toys can be more confusing than satisfying to a child. On the other hand, natural situations, with opportunieties to explore, seldom overstimulate or trouble a small child. Furthermore, most children will find greater satisfaction and demonsstrate greater learning from things they make and do with their parents or other people than from elaborate toys or learning materials. And there is no substitute for solitude - in the sandpile, mud puddle, or play area - for a yound child to work out his own fantasies. Yet this privilege is often denied in our anxiety to institutionalize children.”
Source: School Can Wait
“Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.”
“Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.”
“Parents should be the most important examples for their children.”
“Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact.”
“Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.”
Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
“Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.”
“Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.”