72 Best Parenting Quotes to Take Proper Care of Your Child

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Find here the list of best parenting quotes to find the motivation to take care of the child.

The process of raising children with the protection and care of the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood is called parenting.

Good parenting aims at developing character traits such as independence, self-direction, honesty, self-control, kindness, and cooperation in children. The future of a child is determined by the parenting of his parents.

In this article, we are sharing the list of some motivational parenting quotes that will be helpful for parents to take proper care of their children for a better future of the child.

Best Parenting Quotes all parents

1. “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” ― Umberto Eco

2. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

3. “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

4. “If your kid needs a role model and you ain’t it, you’re both fucked.” ― George Carlin

5. “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.” ― Barbara Johnson

6. “The surest way to a child’s heart is to spend time with them.” ― Kevin Heath

7. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ― James Baldwin

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

8. “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

9. “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” ― Benjamin Spock

10. “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

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11. “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

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

12. “Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.” ― Rachael Bermingham

13. “The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the response to disorder and unpredictability.” ― Sarah Newton

14. “Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.” ― Barbara Kingsolver

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

15. “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

16. “After marriage, once you have a baby, your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.” Kajol

17. “I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it’s my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.” ― Kajol

18. “Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.” ― Brené Brown

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

19. “Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Parenting Quotes to discipline their child

20. “Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development, compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.” ― Simon Baron-Cohen

21. “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.” ― Jane Clayson Johnson

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

23. “Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.” ― Gordon Neufeld

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

24. “Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.” ― Phyllis Diller

25. “The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.” ― David R. Wommack

26. “The best parenting strives to educate their children in HOW TO LIVE LIFE — competitive, compassionate, void of greed, & striving to make a better world.” ― David R. Wommack

27. “Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.” ― Joseph Fielding Smith

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28. “Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t oke enough holes to drain it dry.” ― Alvin Price

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

29. “Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for your child.” ― Kara Durbin

30. “Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don’t Discipline them out of hatred.” ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

31. “One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams.” ― Bernard Kelvin Clive

32. “Don’t just teach your kids, train them how to learn from everything.” ― Dido Stargaze

33. “Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance, and silence.” ― Swami Dhyan Giten

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

34. “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

35. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” ― Jim Valvano

36. “Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won’t embarrass us. We’re working toward something much more important than that. We’re actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust.” ― Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

37. “My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love.” ― Yvonne Pierre

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38. “If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child’s finest teachers.” ― Randy Alcorn

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

39. “Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.” ― Nancy Rose

40. “You can’t make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn’t made them wish they had.” ― Marshall B. Rosenberg

41. “The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.” ― Karen Maezen Miller

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

42. “Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.” ― Jonathan Franzen

43. “Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advise the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear “angelic and saintly” as if they never had horrible youth days.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

44. “My parents never projected their dreams onto me. If they hoped I would be a great pitcher, or political figure, or artist (no chance), they never told me about it. Their view of parenting was to offer love and encourage me to chart my own path.” ― George W. Bush

45. “If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.” ― Martha Wells

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46. “Young children especially need the visual reinforcement of seeing you turn to Scripture for wisdom.” ― Kara Durbin

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

47. “Once you put yourself on the lookout for teachable moments, you’ll find them everywhere!” ― Kara Durbin

48. “Problems in life can change our condition, but they can never change a mother’s love for her child.” ― Debasish Mridha

49. “Mother is the name we give to an angel who is always protecting us with her wings of love.” ― Debasish Mridha

50. “Among the most sacred gifts you can give your child is the gift of health.” ― Dr. Rand Olson

51. “Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.” ― Lisa Wingate

52. “What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.” ― Nicholas Sparks

53. “Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.” ― Leslie A. Gordon

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

54. “Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.” ― Jodi Picoult

55. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” ― Phyllis Diller

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56. “By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.” ― Eileen Kennedy-Moore

57. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” ― Oscar Wilde

58. “You try as a parent, You love beyond reason, You fight beyond endurance, You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.” ― Lisa Gardner

59. “Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.” ― P. J. O’Rourke

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

60. “Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving.” ― Fiona Dimas-Herd

61. “Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don’t owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.” ― Dan Pearce

62. “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” ― Abigail Van Buren

63. “Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.” ― Ben Stein

64. “Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a newborn into the world.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

Motivational parenting quotes to take proper care of the child

65. “Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.” ― Dr. Rand Olson

Bad parenting Quotes

66. “Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.” ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett

67. “Fear-based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.” ― Tim Kimmel

68. “Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.” ― Rosalind Wiseman

69. “Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children.” ― David W. Earle

70. “Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.” ― Henry Cloud

71. “If mental abuse was a punishable crime, a lot of parents would be in jail serving a long term.” ― Maddy Malhotra

72. “If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them and onto YOU.” ― Suzy Kassem

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