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“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.”

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

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

“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”

“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.”

“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”

“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”

“If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.”

“Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”