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So, my brother and I, over the last two years, went back through Scripture and pulled every (passage) we could in relation to parenting children, guarding their hearts, teaching them, loving them, being patient. And then we worked through 40 principles and wrote The Love Dare for Parents. -- Alex Kendrick
Children learn to smile from their parents. -- Shinichi Suzuki
Different parents have different standards for their children. -- Penelope Spheeris
In Sweden, both parents take care of the children. -- Gloria Steinem
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval. -- Mason Cooley
Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. -- Doris Day
Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov
My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children. -- Caitlin Moran
The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children. -- Rand Paul
Parents should be the most important examples for their children. -- Christy Turlington
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. -- George Santayana
Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. -- Mark Sanford
All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction. -- James E. Faust
I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real. -- Beth Moore
Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other. -- Henry B. Eyring
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting. -- Jane Fonda
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. -- Dennis Prager
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. -- Steven Pinker
Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children. -- Tim Kimmel
Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children. -- Elizabeth George
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them. -- Nora Ephron
If you're not parenting on purpose, don't be surprised when you get chaos from the children. -- Benjamin Lotter
The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children. -- Richard Linklater
Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children. -- Timothy Carey
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! -- Louise Hart
It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert. -- Adam Mansbach
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best. -- Erma Bombeck
Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do. -- Jean Ashworth Bartle
If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. -- Liane Moriarty
A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children. -- Timothy Carey
The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live -- enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world. -- David R. Wommack
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture -- Neil Postman
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult. -- Craig T. Nelson
In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas. -- Gerhard E Frost
I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals. -- Timothy Carey
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience. -- Stephen Covey
The best parenting strives to educate their children in HOW TO LIVE LIFE -- competitive, compassionate, void of greed, & striving to make a better world. -- David R. Wommack
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable. -- Robert Winston
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do. -- Brene Brown
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. -- Bill Cosby
Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting. -- Brene Brown
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children. -- George Will
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children. -- Brene Brown
Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting. -- Brene Brown
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part. -- Mary J. Blige
I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings. -- LZ Granderson
The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God. -- Ann Voskamp
The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting. -- Virginia Postrel
The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards. -- Stefan Molyneux

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