Kim Zolciak-Biermann Quotes

Attitudes about the rearing and education of children vary between two extremes. One, which might be labeled “authoritarian” or “coercive,” rests on an assumption that children are by nature irresponsible and lazy, and will do their schoolwork only if they are penalized for a poor performance. The opposite view might be labeled “progressive” or “democratic.” It rests on the assumption that children who are brought up with love, trust, and clear but kind leadership are eager to grow up and be like their parents, eager to explore, learn, master skills, and take on responsibility; they need guidance but not sternness or punishment.

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

Obviously, as parents, we want to do what's best for the kids.

My mother didn't know what to do with me.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

You learn stuff from your kids, every day.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

When you have a little 10-month-old who is climbing up your leg because you are their mountain - there's no nobler reason to get out of bed every day. There's no better reason to live, to make sure you provide as much guidance and as much room for that child to thrive.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.