Raising A Child Quotes

“For all the varied concerns attendant to the raising of a child—over schoolwork, dress, and manners—in the end, a parent’s responsibility could not be more simple: To bring a child safely into adulthood so that she could have a chance to experience a life of purpose and, God willing, contentment.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Let your child see you doing a good deed instead of you telling him or her to do it, and the little child shall one day grow up to become a real kind human being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and dignity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“They'll tell you who they think you should be
they'll even try to manipulate you into believing it but let me tell you something son, if I listened to who I was supposed to be - this, everything we are and do wouldn't be in existence. Be a leader, find yourself and make a life with it. Those who judge you and try to force the patterns of their beliefs onto you are envious they haven't the strength in themselves to do the same.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Let your child be the torch of truth and they shall shine over the entirety of the human society brightening even the darkest corners.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“Start working on your child’s mind. Start building your child’s character. Raise your child as a human being, instead of raising boys and girls. Raise human beings with the religion of love in their hearts. Raise human beings with the language of compassion on their lips. Raise human beings with the color of joy on their face. Raise human beings with the force of bravery in their nerves. And these brave conscientious souls with the flames of compassion in their hearts shall one day change the course of human history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“My mom would always say, "My job is to feed your body, feed your spirit, and feed your mind.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when the life you create becomes the help in the lives of countless other humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?"

My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Do not raise creepy crawlers my dear braveheart parents. Raise mighty humans with Himalayan strength in their veins. Give them the voice that has gone extinct in today’s society. And if there is only one thing you could give to your children, then give them courage – courage to pursue their passion – courage to trample every obstacle in their path – courage to keep walking even when their heart bleeds in agony.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“Most parents would not worry too much about their children if they knew that children belong not to their parents but to life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There’s a major difference between entering a trade apprenticeship as an adolescent, and entering one as a grownup. Youngsters grow into their trade, while a grown-up has to inject it into their veins.”
― Anas Hamshari, Businessman With An Affliction

“Watch your children grow, and they will teach you what you’ve taught them.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“Give a child too much freedom, and he’ll make you a child.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.”
― Clifford Cohen

“Human making is our mission.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“Human making is our mission, but if you break the very soul of the would-be humans, then there will be no human to raise.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“Each day, Luna's ability to break rules in new and creative ways was an astonishment to all who knew her. She tried to ride the goats, tried to roll boulders down the mountain and into the side of the barn (for decoration, she explained), tried to teach the chickens to fly, and once almost drowned in the swamp. (Glerk saved her. Thank goodness.) She gave ale to the geese to see if it made them walk funny (it did) and put peppercorns in the goat's feed to see if it would make them jump (they didn't jump; they just destroyed the fence). Every day she goaded Fyrian into making atrocious choices or she played tricks on the poor dragon, making him cry. She climbed, hid, built, broke, wrote on the walls, and spoiled dresses when they had only just been finished. Her hair ratted, her nose smudged, and she left handprints wherever she went”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“I'm mother to a 20-year-old and I think that the best warning I can give other mothers out there, is to stop expecting and encouraging your child /children to have, or to find, partners that fill-in the missing links for you; that finish your job as a mother for you. It's lazy and selfish. I don't expect my son to ever be with someone who mothers him, treats him like an infant, coddles him, or tries to draw him closer to God. I do not expect my son to find a partner who does my jobs for me. My jobs are mine. My son ought to find a real partner, an equal, an exciting companion to spend his days with. Not a pseudo-mom or an auntie. Please stop expecting that for your children; it's narcissistic and it robs them of a well-lived experience of life.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Teach your children to think, not just to follow. Let them be the leaders, not the ones in the hollow.”
― Jo P. Helm