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 Parenting is an easy job. It requires patience, care and discipline. Here are some parenting quotes. Do read them to be good parent.

  • The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. Frank A. Clark

     

  • All children behave as well as they are treated. Jan Hunt
  • Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him. Dr. Henker

     

  • Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. C. Everett Koop

     

  • Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly. W. Cecil

     

  • Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to drain it dry. Alvin Price

     

  • Discipline doesn't break a child's spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parents heart. Anonymous

     

  • Discipline your son in his early years while there is still hope. If you don't you will ruin his life. Anonymous

     

  • It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear. Terence

     

  • To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself. Chinese Proverb

     

  • The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Oscar Wilde

     

  • Whoever said it first spoke with insight and wisdom: you don't own children, you only borrow them. Anne Linn

     

  • To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. Anonymous

     

  • First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet. Prochnow

     

  • Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. David Bly

     

  • A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes. Russell Lynes

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  • There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. Dr. Who

     

  • If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the grandma. Theresa Bloomingdale

     

  • I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S. Truman

     

  • A mother understands what a child does not say. Jewish Proverb

     

  • The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. Lane Olinhouse

     

  • Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. Lin Yutang

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  • Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. Harold Hulbert

     

  • A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. Anonymous


Children Learn What They Live - Dorothy Law Neite

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child learns to feel shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement he learns confidence
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
He a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.

Adapted from India Parenting

 

 

 
A Parent's Righteous Responsibility PDF Print E-mail

Before parents can teach their children right behavior, they must model God's righteousness in their own lives. Children learn morals and values from their observations of their parents' behaviors and actions.  As is often quoted, proper behavior is "caught" rather than "taught."  Parents must first demonstrate righteousness in their daily living if they want their children to know the difference between right and wrong behavior.

A paraphrase of 1 Peter 1:14-16 instructs parents on how to obtain the righteousness they need to pass on to their children. "As obedient parents, do not follow the passions of your former ignorance, but as God who called you is Holy, you also must be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, 'You shall be holy, for I, the Lord God am Holy.'"

 
Health and Nutrition PDF Print E-mail

Health and Nutrition: An Introduction


What's The Secret to a Healthy Family?


The news is filled with stories about kids not getting enough exercise, eating too much junk food, and not getting enough sleep. And there’s all the scary news about kids’ medical problems—obesity, diabetes, and heart disease—that are linked to poor health habits.
Creating healthy habits within your family can be a daunting task. Where do you start? Fortunately, by beginning with small steps, you can become a healthy family over time. Make it a point to have one healthy meal together each day. Start going for a walk every day when you get home from work or after dinner. Strive to get eight hours of sleep every night. Focus on the small, doable things, and you'll be on your way to having a healthy family. Common Questions About Health and Nutrition >

Did You Know?

  • As kids get older, they tend to slip into poor health habits. While 35 percent of sixth-graders say it’s very much like them to take good care of their bodies (such as by eating healthy foods and exercising regularly), only 23 percent of twelfth-graders say this.1
  • Part of helping kids take care of themselves is showing them that it’s important. Unfortunately, only 30 percent of young people surveyed by Search Institute say their parents and other adults model positive, responsible behavior. Kids watch us in all areas of life, including our health habits.2
  • When Search Institute and America’s Promise asked how well young people are doing health-wise, they discovered that teenagers are faring worse than younger children. Only 36 percent of kids ages 12 to 17 experience healthy development. Only 49 percent of kids between the ages of 6 and 11 do.3
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1. Developmental Assets: A Profile of Your Youth (Minneapolis, MN: Search Institute, 2005), 2003 weighted aggregate dataset, unpublished report. Minneapolis, MN: Search Institute.

2. Peter Scales, Peter Benson, K. Bartig, K. Streit, K. Moore, L. Lippman, B. Brown, and C. Theokas, Keeping America’s Promises to Children and Youth: A Search Institute—Child Trends Report on the Results of the America’s Promise National Telephone Polls of Children, Teenagers, and Parents (Minneapolis, MN: Search Institute, 2006).

 
Scream Free Parenting Tips PDF Print E-mail

Screamfree Parenting:  The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool

By:  Hal Edward Runkel, LMFT   Broadway Books, New York   2007

Ten Important Parenting Tips

1."Your number one leadership role in the family is that of a calming authority." P.7

2. "The only way to retain a position of influence with out children is to regain a position of control over ourselves." P.21

3. "Your emotional responses are up to you. You always have a choice." P.27

4. "Part of being a grown-up is enduring discomfort now for the sake of a payoff later."P.41

5 "If you want your children to become self-directed adults, you have to face the truth that you cannot do it for them." P.72

6."Without space to make their own mistakes, our kids live only borrowed lives." P.79

7. "Your child is testing you to see that you are stable and consistent. And he wants you to pass." P.97

8. "Your cannot orbit around your child without giving her the impression that the world revolves around her." P.103

9. "What you say about your kids is more important than what you say to them." P.120

10."It comes down to integrity, meaning what you say, saying what you mean, and following through with what you promise." P.170