Best Parenting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 41

“Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's”

Heart Mother Father Mom Dad Parenting Biology

Author:Kevin Heath

“Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time”

Giving Kids Love Is Attention Parenting Undivided Attention Undivided Love

Author:Kevin Heath

“The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them”

Way Heart Children Parenting End Times Spend Time

Author:Kevin Heath

“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you.- Desmond Tutu In the end, kids won't remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.”

Ends Kids Remember Games Parenting Our Family Fancy Toys

Author:Kevin Heath

“If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world”

Ifs World Children Acceptance Criticism Praise Parenting Finding Love Children Love Children And Parents Child Development Parents Love Parent Child Love My Parents Best Parents Raising A Family

Author:Dorothy Nolte

“Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."”

Needs Firsts Kids Parent Love Is Duty Parenting

Author:Paul Tillich

“To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?”

Ifs Kids Action Parenting Live By

Author:Kevin Heath

“What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this”

Kids Ability Parenting Innate Ability To Love Love Unconditionally

Author:Kevin Heath

“Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!”

Thinking Wells Children Done Our Children Parenting Your Children Well Done Complement

Author:Kevin Heath

“First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.”

Firsts Children Teach Quiet Parenting

Author:Jurgen Prochnow

“A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.”

Children Matter Loses Break Successful Minutes Parenting Mothers Day Spoil Appreciative Funny Parenting

Book:Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports

Source: Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports

“Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.”

Lasts Next Parent Generations Forgiving Parenting Parenthood Next Generation Inspirational Parenting Amazing Parents

Author:Peter Krause

“Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.”

Children Parent Leader Teacher Parenting Guides Protector Providers

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.”

Knows Men Space Know How Parenting Rage Feminine Bitterness Navigate

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.”

Firsts Children Enough Faces Parent Difficult Challenges Parenting Learning To Love Difficult Challenges

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.”

Father Parenting Deny Block Delay Hinder Measuring

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“You are demonstrating to men that they can come back and get their kids. All of those fatherless sons and daddy-less daughters and the men who didn't know how to go back, you are demonstrating to the world that they can.”

Knows Men World Kids Know How He Man Son Daughter Parenting Daddy Demonstrating Fatherless

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“You never put her in your heart.”

Heart Parenting

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.”

Moments Today Parenting Like Me Over It Get Over Don't Like Me You Don't Like Me

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.”

Knows Order Parenting

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~”

“~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~”

Firsts Moments Remember Values Saws Shadow First Time Parenting Exquisite Absorbing

Author:Thandie Newton

“~When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side - every night. Because one day you won't be able to, and it's going to happen really fast.~”

Happens Able Night Sides Sleep Advice Arms Months One Day Parenting Every Night Aunt Cradle Best Advice

Author:Salma Hayek

“~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~”

Thinking Want Giving Kids Parent Compassion Mom Give Me Asking Parenting Planes Finding Yourself Want Me You Want Me Do You Want Me

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~”

Whole Use Laughing Struggle Parenting Power Struggle Yes And No

Author:Marcia Cross

“~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~”

Way Littles Soul Mines Son Parenting Adopted Womb Foster Parent

Author:Sheryl Crow

“~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~”

Thinking Years Stage Mom Terrible Mets Daughter Parenting My Daughter

Author:Katie Holmes

“~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~”

Want Firsts Children Dream Kids My Own Parenting My Children Primal

Author:Angie Harmon

“~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~”

Thinking Way Mother Wonderful Son Mom Fit Parenting My Son Heels High Heels

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we are responsible to anybody but our kids and ourselves.~”

Thinking Knows Looks Kids Girl Parent Responsible Parenting Trust Me My Girl Overbearing

Author:Brooke Shields

“~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~”

Film Mother Clear Mom Daughter Parenting Priorities My Daughter Being A Mom Priorities In Life

Author:Teri Hatcher

“~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~”

Looks Children Kids Regret Mom Our Children Parenting Spending Your Children You Will Regret

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~”

World Want Trying Important Sometimes Feelings Remember Mother Asks Inspiring Son Mom Down And Parenting My Son Mothers Day Happy Mothers Day

Author:Angelina Jolie

“~My favorite thing about my son is that he comes home from school and the clothes go flying! Like, clothes off, right down to the undies.~”

Home School Son Clothes Parenting My Favorite Flying My Son Coming Home Favorites Things Undies

Author:Kate Hudson

“When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.”

Knows Want Home Kids Ready Standing Parenting Coming Home Standing There

Author:Meryl Streep

“~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~”

Giving Children Character Pain Difficult Struggle Protect Adversity Instinct Parenting My Children Backbone Difficult Experiences

Author:Nicole Kidman

“~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~”

Stills Age Courses Son Parenting My Son Sweetest Karate

Author:Liv Tyler

“~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~”

Trying Littles Would Be Romance Perfect Creatures Parenting Surprise Motherhood Bittersweet Humbling Helm Cuddling

Author:Amanda Peet

“~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~”

Want Feels Littles Age Daughter Parenting Like Me Artistic My Daughter Perfectionist

Author:Courteney Cox

“~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Wells Two Would Be School Used Choices Easy Interesting Boys Conflict First Time Parenting What If Anticipate Dilemma

Author:Jodie Foster

“~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and all of that. But then I realize it just means that I have so much time left to enjoy my kids. And it really does go by so quickly.~”

Feels Mean Doe Moments Kids Left Enjoy Realizing College Dating Parenting Driving Time Left

Author:Geena Davis

“~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~”

Ifs Thinking Trying Two Different Able Mother Week Parenting What If Call Me Two Weeks Mothering Regularity Vantage Point

Author:Julia Roberts

“~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~”

People Ifs Thinking Kids Parent One Thing Prepared Parenting Horrible Manners Be Prepared Strict Bad Manners

Author:Emma Thompson

“~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~”

People Thinking Knows Want Believe Kids Parent Know How Parenting Over It Bores Get Over

Author:Uma Thurman

“~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can't believe it. It's like a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced.~”

Thinking Believe Mean Whole Kids Sound Emotion Parenting Motherhood Dimensions Pregnancy Sentimental I Love My Kids Love My Kids

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“~I got pregnant, and I was like, 'Oh God, it worked! Oh no!' Chris [Ivery, her husband] and I were super happy, then I got terrified! Will I know how to do everything right? Of course, nobody does everything right, but as long as your baby is the priority, that's the best you can do.~”

Knows Long Doe Courses Can Do Know How Baby Husband Parenting Priorities Pregnant Terrified Super Happy

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.”

People Giving Kind Two Energy Parenting Drains

Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to follow.”

People Ifs Way Want Feels Important Moving Desire Values Vision Parenting Inspired Compelling Important Values

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.”

Kids Funny Joy Parenting Parenthood Warfare Thank You Mothers Day Being A Parent Having Kids Raising Kids Funny Parenting Funny Parent Guerrillas Parenthood Funny New Baby Boy Guerrilla Warfare Foster Parent

Author:Ed Asner

“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.”

Looks Children Littles Hard Earth Parent Responsibility Equal Conscious Pressure Parenting Including Being A Parent Physical Health

Author:John Lennon

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