Parenting Lessons Quotes

One truth I've learned as a father: Children want presence more than presents. They don't want to read about you; they want you.

I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.

I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how not to be perfect.

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.

Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

Your children teach you so much. It's a real mirror of yourself.

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

I have often wished in the past few years that my mom were here to help me as I raised my own teenage son. As a girl, with my own mom, I thought I knew it all; now I know better. Somewhere, I know my mom is smiling.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.

I have a daughter who has taught me a lot along the way.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

When I was growing up, my mother only put her foot down once: She said, 'You are going to college.' And that was a lifesaving moment. But she never talked to me about my clothes or hair. So I learned how to parent my kids through her.

My mom has passed down that you can be chic and look beautiful, and you don't have to break the bank. I grew up like that. She also taught me I don't have to stress all the time. She's always been a go-with-the-flow type of woman; that's how she raised us, and I find that's how I'm raising my little girls now.

You know for years, I've heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids about money, but it wasn't until I saw my own son's perspective change that I became a true believer.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

We should teach our children about the reality of failure. Instead of buying them iPhones and iPads, we should teach them values and reality.

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

I learned real fast that you need to have a plan of action when changing diapers, or it can get dicey fast.