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As a parent chances are you may be feeling a little bit un-appreciated, however you must keep in mind that without you; some parts of your life as well as your child’s life would fall to pieces. While you shop about for your child’s next step in clothing, I have put together a collection of inspiring and uplifting quotes about those amazing people, that we like to call parents. I hope that you enjoy them, as you settle into your ways as a new parent. However remember the best way to become a wonderful parent, is by keeping your head held high; and allowing yourself to provide the things in life that your child needs IE: love, comfort, food, shelter, clothing etc.

Parenting Quotes Continued:

* When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. - Erma Bombeck

* I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school. - Unknown Author

* The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. - Sloan Wilson

* You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He is more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. - Robert Frost

* Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. - Bill Dodds

* If I had my child to raise all over again, I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less. I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes. I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play. I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars. I'd do more hugging and less tugging. - Diane Loomans "If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again"

* Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. - Gloria Steinem

* Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted. - George A Dorsey

* Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. - Mignon McLaughlin “The Neurotic's Notebook”

* As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

* Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother. - Rose Kennedy

* Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn't felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people? - Joe E Wells

* Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first. - Mignon McLaughlin “The Second Neurotic's Notebook”

* Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your kids. - Sam Levenson

* It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. - Colette “My Mother's House”

* Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. - P J O Rourke

* Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. - Mignon McLaughlin “The Second Neurotic's Notebook”


 

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