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Best Parenting Quotes

July 25, 2014 By Deb Chitwood 13 Comments

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Best Parenting QuotesI love writing about parenting, and I love parenting quotes. So, today I want to share some of my favorite parenting quotes.

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” Benjamin Spock

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” Maria Montessori

“Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.” Maria Montessori

“Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.” Maria Montessori

“There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.” Marianne Williamson
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.” Carl Jung

“The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.” Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.” John Chrysostom (c. 349-407)

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.” Lisa Wingate

“Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child’s capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern.” Fred Rogers

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.” Benjamin Franklin

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” Emilie Buchwald

“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.” Brian Tracy

“Instead of communicating “I love you, so let me make life easy for you,” I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: “I love you. I believe in you. I know what you’re capable of. So I’m going to make you work.” Kay Wills Wyma, Cleaning House: A Mom’s Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement

“The challenge of parenting lies in finding the balance between nurturing, protecting, and guiding, on one hand, and allowing your child to explore, experiment, and become an independent, unique person, on the other.” Jane Nelsen, Positive Discipline for Preschoolers: For Their Early Years – Raising Children Who Are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful

“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?” Jane Nelsen

“One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.” Jane Nelsen, Positive Discipline: The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler–Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” –Lady Bird Johnson

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” Jim Valvano

“My kid, her life. I want for her what she wants for herself.” Laura Castoro

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

“If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him. If, however, we are careful not to push a child beyond the limit of his courage, he is almost sure to get braver.” John Holt

“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” Jane D. Hull

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”Frederick Douglass

“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.” Elbert Hubbard

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.” Lisa Wingate

“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that’s the only shift they offer.” Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.” From the comic strip The Family Circus by Bil Keane

“Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to live well in an imperfect world, loving each other despite or even because of our imperfections, and growing as humans while we grow our little humans, those are the goals of gentle parenting. So don’t ask yourself at the end of the day if you did everything right. Ask yourself what you learned and how well you loved, then grow from your answer. That is perfect parenting.”  L.R. Knost

“Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone

“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.” Anne Lamott

“One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.” Jane Goodall

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

“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.” Barbara Johnson

“When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.” Thomas Edison

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

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What is your favorite parenting quote?

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  1. defense lawyer says

    August 24, 2015 at 3:29 am

    very nice parenting quotes.its so good for parents.I like the most is “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” Benjamin Spock.

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  2. Great Christian Books says

    September 8, 2015 at 9:58 pm

    this is great. I have bookmarked this page.
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  3. cellphone says

    September 8, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    This is my favorite “Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.” Maria Montessori
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  4. Brigitte Groesbeek says

    October 6, 2015 at 11:03 am

    “Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.” (Maria Montessori)
    Loving this quote!
    Twitter: brigittegroes

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  5. Sapana says

    May 20, 2016 at 12:23 pm

    Nice list of all positive quotes on parenting. 🙂 Encouraged me!
    Twitter: GoMama247

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  6. Jessie Walker says

    August 3, 2016 at 12:22 am

    Love love your quotes. Words can truly heal!

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  7. Deeksha says

    September 3, 2016 at 12:07 pm

    wow! lovely quotes!! must read for all parents!
    Twitter: deekshatripat11

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  8. Dan says

    September 29, 2016 at 5:27 am

    Thank for this list, there’s so much to learn and think of as a parent…

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  9. alex says

    March 7, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    we used to live in the san fracisco bay area and while there,my wife taught at a montessori school. our son was quite young at the time and it made a lasting impression on both of us and changed the way we approached parenting in a big way.
    thanks for the reminder

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  10. Anva says

    March 8, 2017 at 12:49 am

    Thanks for sharing, this post help me so much

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  11. Pricilla Dsouza says

    March 10, 2017 at 3:55 am

    beautiful quotes..wonderful read…a must read for all parents…as parenting has become more tougher than ever and we need to use thee encouraging words daily on our children

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  12. Tabatha Alcina says

    October 16, 2017 at 7:54 pm

    This is my favorite from the list and applies to me as an adult, too.

    ““Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
    Twitter: crybabycalm

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  13. Hunter says

    October 18, 2017 at 11:05 am

    Love it! A lot of wisdom … and humor in those quotes as I remember past experiences! Mine is Still “Choose your battles” 🙂 thank you!
    Twitter: kevonowen

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