Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

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".

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you. ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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

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

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been.

I want to raise my kid different from me.

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised by a single mother who raised me incredibly well.

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised. I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally.

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

Trump must've been an extraordinary father to have raised well-adjusted kids.