parenting quotes

Saskmom.com regularly features quotes about children, parenting, life and love. Here are a few favourites.  

• Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone
• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~ Rajneesh
• While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. ~ Angela Schwindt
• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big. ~ Robert Brault
• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~ Charles R. Swindoll
• The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. ~ William Wordsworth
• We do not remember days, we remember moments. ~ Cesare Pavese
• There are not seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child; there are seven million. ~ Walt Streightiff
• The average child laughs about 400 times per day; the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs? ~ author unknown
• Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. ~ William Stafford
• The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. ~ Robert Brault
• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. ~ C. Everet Koop, M.D.
• It takes a real man to be a Daddy! ~ author unknown
• She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~ Margaret Culkin Banning
• We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
• Family is like branches of a tree. We grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one. ~ author unknown
• Parenthood: it's not a job, it's an adventure! ~ author unknown
• When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
• If life was easy, where would the adventure be? ~ author unknown
• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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