Quotes About Development

Everything depends on upbringing.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.

Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.