Parenting Teenagers Quotes

“Dad, I’m not at all sure I can follow you any longer in your simple Christian faith’ stated the clergyman’s son when he returned from the university for holidays with a fledgling scholar’s
assured arrogance. The father’s black eyes skewered his son, who was 'lost,' as C.S. Lewis put it
‘in the invincible ignorance of his intellect.’ ‘Son,’ the father said, ‘That is your freedom, your
terrible freedom.”
― Ruth Bell Graham

“As parents we're meant to help each other out and build each other up.”
― Galit Breen, Kindness Wins

“Checking in on what our kids are doing online isn't helicoptering, it's parenting.”
― Galit Breen, Kindness Wins

“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

“The absolute best way to raise kind kids, is to be kind parents.”
― Galit Breen, Kindness Wins

“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

“Force your kids to pursue success and they shall be drowned into the abyss of characterlessness, but let them pursue excellence and they shall rise as glorious Gods.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“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

“More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi – more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“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

“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

“Sex is an open secret parents try to hide to their children”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Checking in on what our kids are doing online isn't 'helicoptering,' it's 'parenting.”
― Galit Breen

“The gift of faith given to your children will last longer than any monetary gift.”
― Eve M. Harrell, Confessions of a Helicopter Mom

“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

“Conscious parenting is not about being perfect, it's about being aware. Aware of what your kids need from you to reach more of their full potential.”
― Alex Urbina, The Inspirational Parent: The Magical Ingredients For Effective Parenting

“Calling a child "rebellious" has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school "stupid." It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
― Tim Kimmel

“Children should not be taught to get a job or pursue a profession. Children should be taught to discover their passion and with it define their mission.”
― Tarryn Tomlinson

“To teach our kids what they need to know online, we have to talk to them off line.”
― Galit Breen, Kindness Wins

“A careless risk undertaken thoughtlessly or in pursuit of a thrill is recklessness, but a hazard confronted for the glory of God is a different matter altogether.”
― Hal and Melanie Young

“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

“We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress and amaze us. Come home, Bod.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Parents need to demonstrate a commitment to an orderly transfer of authority from themselves to their adolescent.”
― Kenneth Wilgus, Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: A Complete Guide to Parenting Adolescents and Launching Them Into the World

“For adolescents to be ready for life after high school, they need at least some period of time exercising their own judgment in all aspects of their life while they are still at home, with their parents.”
― Kenneth Wilgus, Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: A Complete Guide to Parenting Adolescents and Launching Them Into the World

“The goal of disciplining a child is obedience. The goal of disciplining a teenager is responsibility.”
― Kenneth Wilgus, Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: A Complete Guide to Parenting Adolescents and Launching Them Into the World

“... responding with anger does not help your teenager see themselves. It only helps them to see you in a very bad light.”
― Kenneth Wilgus, Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: A Complete Guide to Parenting Adolescents and Launching Them Into the World

“If parents in society do not do the parenting, the government will...and not in the way society will enjoy.”
― Aegelis, Sophizo

“Make your praise specific, not "You're a great poet," but, "I love that line about green hair the color of Sprite cans." Sweeping compliments are often dismissed by teenagers and can make them feel the pressure of unrealistic expectations. When you respond specifically to something concrete they have already done, they can really take it in.”
― Susan Noyes Anderson, At the End of Your Rope, There's Hope : Parenting Teens in Crisis