John Ross Bowie Quotes

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.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

Taking care of children was not something I was good at.

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

Attitudes about the rearing and education of children vary between two extremes. One, which might be labeled “authoritarian” or “coercive,” rests on an assumption that children are by nature irresponsible and lazy, and will do their schoolwork only if they are penalized for a poor performance. The opposite view might be labeled “progressive” or “democratic.” It rests on the assumption that children who are brought up with love, trust, and clear but kind leadership are eager to grow up and be like their parents, eager to explore, learn, master skills, and take on responsibility; they need guidance but not sternness or punishment.

Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.

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

We all want to raise our children well.

I am doing everything I can to be a great parent.

Obviously, as parents, we want to do what's best for the kids.

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.