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I love quotes!
I use one at the beginning of every post!
When trying to understand why I love it so much, I think there are 2 main reason:
- They help me say short and clear what I relate to or feel!
- They are said by people we can all learn from, people who changed something in the world or made an impact in any kind of way.
It reminds me a bit of the elder’s wisdom! The wisdom that comes from older people that I can take and use for my own life…
Today, most of us do not live as before, in tribes, where elders passed the knowledge to younger generation…that’s too bad…
We need to learn all by ourselves, from zero! That is maybe one of the reasons why so many adults feel lonely and disconnected to their parenting instinct!
I will never forget a sentence my grandma (today 98 years old) told me few years ago… I told her how mad I was at my husband as he did not help me enough at home and forgets everything that he was supposed to do or buy…She said “let him come home, sit down, give him a great diner and hug him!”
Anyway, since I am a motivational quote lover, I decided to compile my top 25 parenting quotes, the ones I relate to…
and even add some of my own! Maybe one day, someone will use mine😊 (only once I changed the world!)
I decided not to categorize them since all are about parenting but rather, add something about the people who said them, to give credit to that person, and not just a name…
"Children should not be burdened with making us happy, nor blamed for making us sad or angry. Children are not responsible for how we feel. We are."
"The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other. "
“There are two gifts we should give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.” Unknown
“In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.” Unknown
“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you. No matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big because to them all of it has always been big stuff.”
Catherine M. Wallace, American author. Books include Confronting Religious Denial of Science, For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives
“Stop trying to perfect your child but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.”
Dr. Henker
“A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.”
Banksy: an anonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director. Author of Wall and Piece
“The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways.” Unknown
“As a mother, my job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.”
Ruth Bell Graham, American Christian author. Author of “Prodigals and Those Who Love Them: Words of Encouragement for Those Who Wait” , One Wintry Night
story of her life: Ruth, A Portrait: The story of Ruth Bell Graham
“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
L.R. Knost, American author about parenting and children. Books include ‘Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages‘, ‘Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood‘
“Respond to your children with love in the worst moments, their broken moments, their angry moments, their selfish moments, their lonely moments, their frustrating moments, their inconvenient moments because it is in their most unlovable human moments that they most need to feel loved.”
L.R. Knost
“Play is the language of childhood. Speaking our children’s language may sound like nonsense to us, but it sounds like love to them.”
L.R. Knost
“In all kinds of ways- if we are willing, our children take us into places in our hearts we didn’t know existed.”
Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Acclaimed Author, Wisdom Teacher, Clinical Psychologist, International Speaker
In that post, I added a link and info on Dr. Shefali Tsabary online classes.
All her books can be found HERE.
“The parenting journey holds the potential to be a spiritually regenerative experience for both parent and child, where every moment is a meeting of spirits, and both parent and child appreciate that each dances on a spiritual path that’s unique, holding hands and yet alone. “
Dr. Shefali Tsabary
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Fredrick Douglas, American social, reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
Douglass wrote several autobiographies, notably describing his experiences as a slave in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). Following the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
“No matter how busy you are, carve out time to play with your kids.“
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United State
“A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided.”
Robert Brault, US free-lance writer. Author of many books that can be purchased HERE.
“There is nothing worse than a thirteen-year-old boy. You’re embarrassed by your parents, and you’re trying to find your independence because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.”
Ben Affleck, American film actor, director and screenwriter.
You have probably seen or read “Good Will Hunting”!
“I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.”
Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and artist.
Author of Memoirs and Misinformation
“The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.”
Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
“Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.”
Laura Schlessinger, American talk radio host and author. “The Dr. Laura Program,” heard weekdays for three hours on Sirius XM Radio, consists mainly of her responses to callers’ requests for personal advice and often features her short monologues on social and political topics. Her website says that her show “preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values, and ethics.” She is an inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago.
“Be the person you needed when you were younger.”
Ayesha Siddiqi, scientist, political commentator and author
Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth. For what they believe is what they will become.
Brooke Hampton, author of children’s books with the hope of inspiring the younger generation to embrace all the healing magic in nature.
“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
Haim Ginott, school teacher, a child psychologist and psychotherapist and a parent educator. He pioneered techniques for conversing with children that are still taught today. His book, Between Parent and Child, stayed on the best seller list for over a year and is still popular today. This book sets out to give “specific advice derived from basic communication principles that will guide parents in living with children in mutual respect and dignity.”
“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.” Unknown
And now, let me reveal my own quotes…
“Mom is not the person who can provide everything to her child, but the one who will provide all what she can.”
Karen Klein
“It is the parent’s responsibility to fight for the child-parent relationship.”
Karen Klein
“We all have the right to feel hurt in our childhood, no matter if a friend is hurt more. This is not relative to each other but each has its right for any feeling and it is time to stop comparing to others and start feeling.”
Karen Klein
“Life dancing is accepting to be in between and decide to stop living in black & white. It is ok to feel happy and sad, sometimes optimistic and sometimes pessimistic, take care of yourself while taking care of others, dance between softness and hardness. No one said you have to be 100% in something but give YOUR maximum in between.”
Karen Klein
Thank you very much for these quotes! I saved them all !!! But my favorite quote is: “Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth. For what they believe is what they will become. “