Learn what these well-known people had to say about parenting.
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. – Anne Frank
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. – Benjamin Spock
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future. – President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them. – Bill Ayers
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. – Dorothy Parker
That’s the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You’ll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and – in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love – you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents. – Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River
Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil. – Walt Disney
Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up. – Ray Romano
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. – Bill Cosby
There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child. – Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
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
Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself. – Wayne Dyer
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. – P.J. O’Rourke
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. – Franklin P. Adams
I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them. – Phyllis Diller
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. – Jane Goodall
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears. – Henry Cloud
If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding…and snatch an opportunity to shape character. – Jane Clayson Johnson, I Am a Mother
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. – Benjamin Franklin
Perhaps it takes courage to raise children. – John Steinbeck, East of Eden
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown,give him support. – Osho
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. – Erma Bombeck
We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up. – Phyllis Diller
Everything depends on upbringing. – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves. – Henry Ward Beecher
To bring up a child in the way he should go – travel that way yourself. – Josh Billings
Life so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Originally Posted at Psychology Today: 30 Quotes on Parenting
