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Favorite Quotations on Parenting

  • Encouragement is stronger than criticism.

  • When you work with people, it is a lot like mining for gold.  You do not look for the dirt.  You look for the gold. (Andrew Carnegie)

  • Don't do anything you wouldn't teach your children to do.

  • I've learned that love and a listening ear are the greatest things you can give your children.

  • I've learned that you can tell how good a parent you were by observing your children with their children.

  • It's not what the teacher says, but what the student hears, that matters.

  • When a child is convinced he is greatly loved and respected by his parents, he is inclined to accept his own worth as a person.

  • The foundational understanding on which the entire parent-child relationship rests is found in a careful balance between love and discipline.  The interaction of those two variables is critical and is as close as we can get to a formula for successful parenting.  (Dr. James Dobson, The New Dare to Discipline, p. 48)

  • Children miss nothing in sizing up their parents.  If you are only half convinced of your beliefs, they will quickly discern that fact.  Any ethical weak spot-any indecision on your part-will be incorporated and then magnified in your sons and daughters.  Their faith or faithlessness will be a reflection of our own.  (Dr. James Dobson, Parenting Isn't for Cowards, p.106)

  • I've learned that the kind of adults my children are now is directly related to the kind of children I continually told them they were.