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I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
Sep 30, 2025
Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
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.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow
If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.
The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
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.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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