See also: Children; Parenting
The typical parent spends less than one hour per week in meaningful interaction with each of his or her children.
George Barna
Honor your parents both in your thoughts, and speech, and behavior. Think not dishonorably or contemptuously of them in your hearts. Speak not dishonorably, rudely, unreverently, or saucily, either to them or of them. Behave not yourselves rudely and unreverently before them. Yea, though your parents be never so poor in the world, or weak of understanding, yea, though they were ungodly, you must honor them notwithstanding all this; though you cannot honor them as rich, or wise, or godly, you must honor them as your parents.
Richard Baxter
We take care of our possessions for our children. But of the children themselves we take no care at all. What an absurdity is this! Form the soul of thy son aright, and all the rest will be added hereafter.
John Chrysostom
Every parent especially ought to feel, every hour of the day, that, next to making his own calling and election sure, this is the end for which he is kept alive by God, this is his task on earth.
R.L. Dabney
The neglect of moral training is monstrous, involving an outrage of the clearest sentiments of Nature and flagrant injustice to the offspring.
R.L. Dabney
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
Kathy Davis
The most important things we can give our kids are our time, our lives, and our values – and values are caught more than they are taught.
Tim Hansel
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott Maxwell
If you are not willing to make time for your children, then every other piece of advice you get is meaningless.
Josh McDowell
God loves your children through you, but if you’re not available, how can he love them?
Josh McDowell
Acceptance and appreciation tells the child that he or she is of tremendous worth. And I can only express my acceptance and appreciation through being affectionate – and available.
Josh McDowell
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are being formed; his blood is being made; his mind is being developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow. His name is today.
Gabriela Mistral
I pray you so live, that when you stand over your child’s dead body, you may never hear a voice coming up from that clay, “Father, your negligence was my destruction. Mother, your prayerlessness was the instrument of my damnation.”
C.H. Spurgeon
When parents instruct not their children, they seldom prove blessings. God often punishes the carelessness of parents with undutifulness in their children.
Thomas Watson