Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

The thing I like the best, especially being a parent of so many kids, Is that they're all so different. You love them all equally, but they're all so different from each other and that's the cool thing, to see their personalities start to develop and see how unique and different they all are and to be able to love them in their own unique ways. It's really, really, really special.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Realizing that my children are the center of the universe and not me is probably one of the greatest ways to acclimatize.

I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

Today I am amazed at the things our children have done and their wide range of interests. They are all living their lives and not the ones I would have planned for them. But I have learned that their lives are theirs, not mine, and in living their own lives they have given me experiences and an education I would never have had if I'd been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

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

Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.

"What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?" she asked. "To believe that your children will be just like you."