Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

You only get to know someone after a huge exchange of blows.

In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.

Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.

Parenting is a learning process.

Dealing with kids, you're always going to have to deal with something. I mean, they're kids.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.

I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.

Every family goes through ups and downs. You may want a relationship with someone, which your family may not approve of but they don't stop loving you.

There is no perfect relationship. You have to work around the dissatisfaction.

Computers shouldn't be parents, but they are. Please, spend time with your kids. If you don't want to, then I don't want to. It might hurt you to discipline your offspring, but it saves the child from being disciplined later by someone less forgiving. Like a criminal court judge. If you don't spank your child, someone else will.

I told my children, 'I don't like children.'

I think I would make a good father. I'd be a disciplinarian.

To bring up a child well, all a parent needs to do is be extremely honest with the child.

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

You need to be able to sit down and talk to your children.