Being A Good Parent Quotes

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

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.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That’s why I tell parents that the schools can’t do it all themselves. The parents can’t come home from work and turn on the TV. That’s not being a good parent.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil…

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

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.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it’s amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

We found … that being a good parent to one’s own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.