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Top 99 Quotes About Letting Your Child Grow Up

As parents, it can be tough to watch our children grow up and become independent individuals. However, it’s important to remember that letting them go is a natural part of the parenting journey. Here are some inspiring quotes about letting your child grow up:

1. “It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.” – Joyce Maynard
2. “A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.” – Elizabeth Gaskell
3. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
4. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
5. “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” – Denis Waitley
6. “As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” – Kevin Heath
7. “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – O. A. Battista
8. “The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other.” – John Wooden
9. “The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.” – Zig Ziglar
10. “The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: ‘In raising children, we need to keep in mind that they are not ours to keep. They are ours to teach how to fly.'” – Erin Hanson
11. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
12. “The best thing parents can do for their children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.” – C. JoyBell C.
13. “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis
14. “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.” – Dorothy Parker
15. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.” – Kahlil Gibran
16. “The best thing parents can do for their children is to love them, believe in them and empower them to be the best they can be.” – Farshad Asl
17. “The best thing you can give your children is wings of independence, the second best thing is roots of responsibility and love.” – Jonathon Kozol
18. “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein
19. “The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” – Frank A. Clark
20. “Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” – Sophocles
21. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
22. “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson
23. “A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained.” – Lyman Abbott
24. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
25. “The best thing parents can do for their children is to help them do things for themselves, and learn to take care of themselves.” – E. Jean Carroll
26. “Children are like wet cement whatever falls on them makes an impression.” – Haim Ginott
27. “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” – John F. Kennedy
28. “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” – Patrick Rothfuss
29. “Our children are only ever lent to us. We never know just how long we will be able to keep them for. So kiss them, cuddle them, praise them and hold them tightly. But most of all, let them know you love them.” – Anonymous
30. “The soul is healed by being with children.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
31. “Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too.” – Lionel Kauffman
32. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John W. Whitehead
33. “Children make your life important.” – Erma Bombeck
34. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss
35. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
36. “The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” – Billy Graham
37. “The best thing to spend on your children is your time.” – Louise Hart
38. “A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. “Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.” – Richard L. Evans
40. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
41. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss
42. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
43. “Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” – Henry Ward Beecher
44. “The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other.” – John Wooden
45. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
46. “The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” – Billy Graham
47. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
48. “The soul is healed by being with children.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
49. “A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained.” – Lyman Abbott
50. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John W. Whitehead
51. “Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.” – Anne Sullivan
52. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
53. “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren
54. “The best thing parents can do for their children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.” – C. JoyBell C.
55. “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – O. A. Battista
56. “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.” – Dorothy Parker
57. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
58. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
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