Judy Blume Quotes

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

I always feel it's not a parent's role to either allow or to deny, but merely to guide.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.