Non-Violent Parenting Quotes

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care.

I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.

My mother used to pat me instead of slapping me whenever I made a mistake.

I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.