Top 10 Favourite Parenting Quotes

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. –Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any. -Bill Cosby, Fatherhood

Lessons leaned in childhood will last a lifetime. -Proverbs 22:6 (simplified)

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith

Let your eyes light up when your children are around. Laugh more. Tell them how empty and quiet it is when they’re not there. Enjoy the things they bring to your life. Attend their activities, not as if they were compulsory for parents, but throw yourself into their lives. -Valerie Bell

We should not use anger so often that it becomes an expected emotion. All of us, including our kids, love emotion. Once kids get used to a particular emotion—be it shame, anger, guilt, or love—that expected emotion becomes the emotion of choice. -Foster Cline and Jim Fay

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . -Thomas Bray

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. -John Gray, Children Are From Heaven

If a child is to keep 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. -Rachel Carson.