Parenting Quotes:- Parenting or child-rearing is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting styles vary by historical time period, race/ethnicity, social class, and other social features. Additionally, research has supported that parental history both in terms of attachments of varying quality as well as parental psychopathology, particularly in the wake of adverse experiences, can strongly influence parental sensitivity and child outcomes.
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old parenting quotes, parenting sayings, and parenting proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
List Of Motivational Parenting Quotes And Sayings
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.
-Anne Frank
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
-Bill Cosby
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.
-John Wilmot
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
-Henry Ward Beecher
We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.
-Phyllis Diller
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown,give him support
-Osho
Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.
-John Steinbeck
Parenthood…It’s about guiding the next generation and forgiving the last.
-Peter Krause
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
-Barbara Kingsolver
There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.
-Joni Eareckson Tada
Famous Humorous Parenting Quotes And Proverbs
I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it’s your job to stand in the way.
-Joe Hill
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.
-Chuck Palahniuk
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
-Joyce Carol Oates
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
-Karen Maezen Miller
I’m beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.
-Sandra Steingraber
It’s our children who teach us how to be parents.
-Susie Morgenstern
There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.
-Sue Atkins
Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
-Lydia H. Sigourney
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
-Elbert Hubbard
Best Inspirational Parenting Quotes And Proverbs
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
-Anne Frank
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
-Plato
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
-Bill Cosby
My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.
-Gena Lee Nolin
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
-Benjamin Spock
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
-George Bernard Shaw
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them
-Frank A. Clark
Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
-Dr. Henker
Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.
-Alvin Price
Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly.
-W. Cecil