Positive Parenting Quotes

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  – Elizabeth Stone

Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep. -  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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

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The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. – Jim Henson 1936-1990, Creator of The Muppets

we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.  -  Carl Jung

A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.  – Frank Howard Clark

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away. – Bil Keane

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.  – Rupert Brooke

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

Do all things with love. – Og Mandino

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. -  Erma Bombeck

Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun. – Tiger Woods

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving. – Morgan Freeman

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. – Phyllis Diller

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams. – Miley Cyrus

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.  – Paula Poundstone