The question isn’t so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
I love my son and am proud of my son.
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody’s got to be crazy about that kid. That’s number one. First, last and always.
The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
The child should live in an environment of beauty.
A child needs freedom within limits.
Treat a child as though he already is the person he’s capable of becoming.
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.
Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.
If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.
There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.
When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not join their chaos.