parenting quotes

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I’m worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That’s always first.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

My next baby will be my new record.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.