Meaningful sayings and quotes about raising children

Quotes about raising children

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse environments. We don't raise artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs. But we are raising a generation of children who can sit in front of monitor screens for hours. (Darell Hammond)
As a parent, sometimes you realize that your responsibility is not to be the parent you always dreamed of. Your responsibility is to be the parent your child needs, given his or her own life and character. (Ayelet Waldman)
Parenting is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other. (Juhi Chawla)
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will have no real respect for anyone at all. (Billy Graham)
We pay more attention to who can drive a car rather than who can be a parent. And I think there should be mandatory classes in high school for those who want to be a parent. After all, to become one you need to have a license. (Dale Archer)
Raising children is one of the most difficult jobs on earth. (Jennifer Aniston)
If the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then I've done my job. (Roseanne Barr)
Once you become a parent, everyone gives you parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it. (Essie Davis)
There is no point in having children if you are rarely home to raise them. (Anthony Edwards)
Our task is not to harden our children in the face of a cruel and heartless world. It is our responsibility to raise children who will make the world less cruel and heartless. (Writer L.R. Knost)
You know your kids are growing up when they stop asking you where they're from and refuse to tell you where they're going. (Patrick Jay O'Rourke)
Most children sometimes threaten to run away from home. This is the one thing that holds some parents back. (Phyllis Diller)
Life offers no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising the next generation. (Everett Koop)
Education, like neurosis, begins at home. (Milton Saperstein)

The purpose of education is the development of the child

Quotes about parenting give an idea of what exactly it should involve and when it is most effective. After all, education is not only and not so much moral teaching and reading morals, but the ability to understand what children really need and provide them with the opportunity for further development.

“Preaching from the pulpit, captivating from the platform, teaching from the pulpit is much easier than raising one child.”

Alexander Herzen

“Education means nourishing the child’s abilities, and not creating those new abilities that he does not have.”

Giuseppe Mazzini

“A child needs your love most when he deserves it least.”

Erma Bombeck

“Let the child’s first lesson be obedience, then the second may be what you consider necessary.”

Thomas Fuller

“Children need role models more than criticism.”

Joseph Joubert

“All the difficulties of upbringing arise from the fact that parents, not only not correcting their shortcomings, but also justifying them in themselves, want not to see these shortcomings in their children.”

Lev Tolstoy

“Don’t make an idol out of a child; when he grows up, he will demand sacrifices.”

Pierre Buast

“Do you know what the surest way to make your child unhappy? This is to teach him not to refuse anything.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Parenting is the most difficult thing. You think – well, it’s all over now! No such luck – it’s just beginning!”

Mikhail Lermontov

“Parents often confuse the concepts of “upbringing” and “education” and think that they have given their child an upbringing when they have forced him to study so many subjects. Hence the frequent disappointment of parents in their children in subsequent years.”

Anton Rubinstein

“Sow an action and you will reap a habit; sow a habit and you will reap a character; sow a character and you will reap a destiny.”

William Thackeray

“If you want to raise good children, spend half as much money and twice as much time on them.”

Quotes about children with meaning

Childhood obesity is best addressed at home by involving parents in the child's life, increasing exercise, improving nutrition, and limiting food intake. (Bob Filner)
Receive children the same way you receive trees—with gratitude and blessings, but without excessive expectations or desires. After all, we do not expect trees to change, but love and accept them as they are. (Isabel Allende)
Cleaning or renovating the house while the child is still small is as useless as clearing snow from an alley during a snowfall. (Phyllis Diller)
Children will remember you not for the gifts and material things you gave them, but for the knowledge that you protected them (Richard L. Evans)
As long as little children have to suffer, there is no true love in this world. (Isadora Duncan)
Where did the crazy idea come from that in order for children to feel better, they must first be made to feel worse? Think about the last time you felt humiliated or unfair. Did you want to cooperate or do better then? (Nancy Jane Nelson)
Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment, and it is time we all take a stand against it. (Katherine Jenkins) (We recommend learning effective ways to protect your child from bullying at school?)
The first year of a child's life, we teach him to walk, talk, and the rest of his life - to be silent and sit. Something seems wrong here. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson)
To value his own opinion, a child must feel that he is a worthy person. He must be confident in himself as an individual. (Benjamin Charles Grunberg)
The most important task of a nation is to ensure that its youth are free to pursue their dreams. (Barack Obama)

Personality education according to Makarenko

The brilliant teacher Anton Semenovich Makarenko had his own view on raising children. His methodology was criticized and persecuted, however, according to UNESCO, he is one of the four people who had the strongest influence on modern pedagogical science. Makarenko’s quotes about raising children show his vision of how to raise a full-fledged personality.

“Your own behavior is the most decisive thing. Do not think that you are raising a child only when you talk to him, or teach him, or order him. You raise him at every moment of your life, even when you are not at home.”

“The educational process is a constantly ongoing process, and its individual details are resolved in the general tone of the family, and the general tone cannot be invented and artificially maintained. The general tone, dear parents, is created by your own life and your own behavior.”

“Do you want to corrupt the soul of your child? Then don’t refuse him anything. And over time you will understand that you are not raising a person, but a crooked tree.”

“Concentrating love on one child is a terrible delusion.”

“If at home you are rude, or boastful, or drunk, and even worse, if you insult your mother, you no longer need to think about education: you are already raising your children, and raising them poorly, and none of the best advice and methods will help you.” .

“So we all invent educational systems: this is how we should educate, this way... But in fact, parents and educators have one task: to keep the child’s nervous system safe and sound by the age of 18. Life will put such a burden on his shoulders that his nerves will need to be intact, and we tear them to shreds from an early age...”

Quotes about children and parents

The depth of love parents have for their children cannot be measured. It's not like other relationships. This goes beyond caring for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and overcomes grief and disappointment. (James Faust)
For the first five years, treat your child as the woman you love. For the next five years, scold him. And when he turns sixteen, treat him like a friend. Your adult children are your best friends. (Chanakya)
Children don't need more toys. The best toys a child can have are a parent who lies down on the floor and plays with them. (Unknown)
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some idea of self-worth. It's sad that so many parents don't understand the messages they are sending. (Virginia Satir)
Parents must fill the child's self-esteem bucket so full that the world cannot dig enough holes to drain it. (Unknown) (If a teenager has low self-esteem, then find out how to raise it?)
Every young person sooner or later makes an amazing discovery - that parents are sometimes right. (Andre Malraux)
Live your life so that when your children think about justice, caring and honesty, they think about you. (Jackson Brown Jr.)
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. (Elbert Greene Hubbard)
Watch your children carefully: they have fundamental approaches and answers to the mysteries of life that we lost as adults. (Robert Muller)
The most important decision you need to make is having a child. It means deciding to let your heart go beyond your body. (Elizabeth Stone)

Beautiful quotes and sayings about children

It is important for a child to know that he is a miracle. That since the beginning of the world there has not been, and until the end of the world there will not be another child like him. (Pablo Casals)
Your children cannot regret your past. These are his best fruits. Sometimes the only ones. (Anna Quindlen) It is vital that when training our children's brains, we do not neglect training their hearts. (Dalai Lama)
The best bakery where you can leave your child alone is a library. (Maya Angelou)
Don't teach your children to be rich. Teach them to be happy so that they know the real values and not the price of things. (Unknown)
When you read to your child or place a book in his or her hands, you are bringing your little one news of the infinitely varied nature of life. (Paula Fox)
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary ability to see into the essence of things and expose the pretense. (Desmond Tutu)
When children come into contact with nature, they discover their powers. (Maria Montessori)
Few things make a parent's life more successful and enjoyable than successful children. (Nelson Mandela)
Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows. (Maralee McKee)
There is nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children, no matter what they are laughing at. (Written by Chris Jami)

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Short quotes and sayings about children

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. (Marva Collins)
What a child does not receive, he can rarely give later. (Unknown) Dignity is a child's most important need. (Polly Berrien Behrends)
There are two classes of travel - first class and traveling with children. (Robert Benchley)
A child who plays is a child who learns. (Cheryl McCarthy)
Children deserve the right to think they can change the world. (Lois Lowry)
Play gives children the opportunity to practice what they are learning. (Fred Rogers)
Children understand and remember concepts better when they learn through personal experience. (Joseph Campbell)
The best way to keep kids out of trouble is to get them interested in things. (Walt Disney)
If you can only give your son or daughter one gift, then let it be enthusiasm. (Bruce Barton)
The child thinks that life is truly wonderful and will become even more beautiful. It is society's duty to live up to this expectation. (Robert Muller)
Never help a child with a task in which he feels he can succeed on his own. (Maria Montessori)
Don't worry about kids never listening to you. Be vigilant because they are constantly watching you. (Robert Fulghum)

Quotes from wise people about happiness, childhood, children's smiles

In children's smiles I see that there is something divine in every child. (Michael Jackson)
It is better to sacrifice today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. (Abdul Kalam)
My children are amazing people who I would love even if they weren't my children. (Writer Toni Morrison)
There can be no better understanding of what a society is than how it treats its children. (Nelson Mandela)
Children's games can hardly be called games. Children are never more serious than when they are playing. (Michel de Montaigne)
A child learns to smile by looking at the example of his parents. (Shinichi Suzuki)
Children who are treated as if they are uneducated almost always become so. (Kenneth Clark)
Almost all true stories in the world are told by children. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Children are selfish. They are very aware of their needs and ruthlessly strive to satisfy them. (Sigmund Freud)
There is nothing more pure than the smile of an innocent child that shines with true happiness. (Unknown)
Children smile at everything and everyone. This is due to how beautifully they perceive life. Isn't that wonderful in itself? (Unknown)
A child's smile can teach you to be happy, even if there is no apparent reason for it. (Unknown)

Summarize

Much has been said about what it means to be a parent. You'll find plenty of parenting tutorials in the bookstore, and there are thousands of parenting blogs on the Internet. When it comes to children (especially strangers), everyone has their own opinions, ideas and methods.

After all, education does not have one dimension, just as there is no single definition. But sometimes we come across words that most accurately reflect the essence of what it means to raise a child. In this article, we have collected beautiful quotes about raising children that almost all parents can subscribe to.

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Children are the flowers of life

The quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery that children are flowers of life that are born with their heads down is familiar to everyone. Maxim Gorky called children “the living flowers of the earth.” Because a child is a vessel filled to the brim with trust in this world. Children decorate our lives and give it meaning.

“Children are holy and pure. You can’t make them the plaything of your mood.”

Anton Chekhov

“The child’s state of mind runs through our entire lives - it is this that prompts us to seek the meaning of life, to seek God.”

Vladimir Levi

“In the theater of life, the only real spectators are children.”

Vladislav Grzeszczyk

“Without children it would be impossible to love humanity so much.”

Fedor Dostoevsky

“Children are the living force of society. Without them it seems bloodless and cold.”

Anton Makarenko

“I am sure that if you had to choose to live where the noise of children does not stop for a minute, or where it is never heard, then all normal and healthy people would prefer incessant noise to incessant silence.”

Bernard Show

Children is our future

We all want our children to grow up better, smarter, happier than us. Quotes on the topic that children are our future reveal to us the full meaning of this famous phrase.

“You will live in the world ten times, repeated ten times in children. And in your last hour you will have the right to triumph over conquered death.”

“Look at my children. My former freshness is alive in them. They are the justification for my old age.”

William Shakespeare

“Life is short, but a person lives it again in his children.”

Anatole France

“Children are one third of our country’s population and our entire future. Children make me want to live.”

Muhammad Ali

“By raising children, today’s parents are raising the future history of our country, and therefore the history of the world.”

“Our children are our old age. Proper upbringing is our happy old age, bad upbringing is our future grief, our tears, our guilt before other people.”

Anton Makarenko

“Children are living messages that we send to a future that we will not see.”

Alfred Whitehead

“Fear for a child is more than fear for one’s own life. This is fear for one’s immortality.”

Victoria Tokareva