Need Some Famous, Great and Inspiring Quotes About Parenting?
Parents & The Art of Parenting Life sTage 5)
Life as a parent can drive you up a wall. There is no job that needs more patience, gentleness and inspiration. Here are a few great quotes to help get you through the day ...
The Task of Parenting
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
- John Adams
We do not inherit [in.her.it] the earth from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
- Native American proverb
Critical Tasks
Task: Give Good Advice
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Piccasso
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
Task: Show Them The Right Path
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
- Carl Jung
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
- Colin Powell
Task: Help Them Become Who They Were Meant to Be
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
- Denis Waitley
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
- Jim Valvano
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.
- Hodding Carter
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
- Lady Bird Johnson
Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
- Haim Ginott
Task: Tell Them about What Is Important & How World Works
It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.
- Pearl S. Buck
He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
- Abraham Lincoln
Challenges
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
- Franklin P. Adams
The young wish to give their elders the full benefits of their inexperience.
- unknown
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.
- Marshall Rosenberg
Humor
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- Mark Twain
