Inspirational Parenting Quotes and Scrapbook Layouts

Children learn to smile from their parents

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"Children learn to smile from their parents."

Shinichi Suzuki

"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses."

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When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

~Joyce Brothers

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today

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"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today." ~Stacia Tauscher

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children

2009-11-09T18:31:00.000-08:00

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."
- Clarence Day

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

2009-10-30T17:52:00.000-07:00

"The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness." -Nancy Mitford

Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave

2009-08-30T00:17:00.001-07:00

"Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

Martin Luther

If you don't know your family's history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree

2009-08-27T15:57:00.000-07:00

"If you don't know [your family's] history, then
you don't know anything. You are a leaf that
doesn't know it is part of a tree."

- Michael Chrichton

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden

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“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.” -Jim Rohn

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently

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“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.”
- Chinese Proverb

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them

2009-08-14T17:01:00.000-07:00

"Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them."

Richard L. Evans quotes

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they are born...

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"Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you."
-Ray Romano

A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank-account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the make of car I drove. But the world may...

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"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank-account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the make of car I drove. But the world may be different, because I was important in the life of a child."
-Author Unknown

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain

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"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain" - Martin Mull

A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart

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A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. - Allen Beck

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes

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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down
usually have children who tread on their toes.
-Chinese Proverb

Parenthood, it's not a job. It's an adventure!

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Parenthood, it's not a job. It's an adventure!
-unknown

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable

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The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention
is to sit down and look comfortable.

~ Lane Olinhouse

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. ..

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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.
-- Gary Smalley

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid

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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory…Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength. Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain." -General Douglas MacArthur

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance.

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

-Dr. James Dobson

I thank God.. that I'm a product of my parents; That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life

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I thank God.. that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.
Shakira

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it

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Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been...

2009-07-02T17:06:00.000-07:00

"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."

Pablo Casals

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today

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To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today
- Anonymous

The real menace in dealing with a five year old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five year old

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"The real menace in dealing with a five year old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five year old."
Jean Kerr
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare

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Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.
Ed Asner

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter...

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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
-- John Gregory Brown

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble

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Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble.
Dennis Fakes

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up

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Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
James Dobson

A mother's children are portraits of herself

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"A mother's children are portraits of herself."
-----Author unknown

"God is as real as I am" the old man said. My faith was restored, for I knew that Santa would never lie

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"God is as real as I am" the old man said. My faith was restored, for
I knew that Santa would never lie.

"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day."

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"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day."

M. Grundler quotes

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance

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Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
-- Milton R. Saperstein

I am not allowed to sing, dance, laugh or wear short skirts. Having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban

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I am not allowed to sing, dance, laugh or wear short skirts. Having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban.
Author Kathy Lette

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching

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

When I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much my father had learned in seven years!

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain,

Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn -- with kids as well as with adults.

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Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn -- with kids as well as with adults.
-- William Attwood

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budinton Kelland

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother, and the most important thing a mother can do for her children is to love their father. Anonymous

If I had my child to raise all over again, I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later

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If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
~Diane Loomans, from "If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again"

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott
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Discipline doesn't break a child's spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parents heart

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# Discipline doesn't break a child's spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parents heart. Anonymous

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy

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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Your children need your presence more than your presents

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Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while

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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~Josh Billings