Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models"

Lee Haney, Athlete

"More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act"

Lee Haney, Athlete

"Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid"

Trey Parker, Artist

"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields"

Marvin Olasky, Educator

"Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously"

William Bennett, Politician

"Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent"

Jane Fonda, Actress

"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings"

Brian Tracy, Author

"As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities"

John Walters, Musician

"I used to babysit a lot, and I used to be a nanny"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"We've got the children, so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat"

Ringo Starr, Musician

"One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me"

Hugh Laurie, Comedian

"On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?"

Celine Dion, Musician

"Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young"

Martha Beck, Author

"We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse"

Jon Corzine, Politician

"Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp"

Raymond Duncan, Writer

"I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility"

Joe Baca, Politician

"People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have"

John Holt, Educator

"Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom"

Erik Erikson, Psychologist

"The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"It distresses me that parents insist that their children read, or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe"

Lawrence Kutner, Writer

"If children were brought up to become non-conformists, it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else"

Jung Chang, Writer

"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained"

Lyman Abbott, Author

"But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over"

Paul Reiser, Comedian

"I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children"

John Doolittle, Politician

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