QUOTATION: Education

Parents have to respect their children’s freedom, because there is no real education without personal responsibility, and there is no responsibility without freedom.

--St. Josemaria Escriva

QUOTATION: Transmitting the Faith

If your heart overflows with faith and love for God, you will find a thousand ways to pass on these feelings to your child.

--St. Irenaeus

QUOTATION: Childbearing

One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man-made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a woman has given birth will live forever, for he has been given an immortal soul made to God’s image and likeness. In this light, the assertion of de Beauvoir that ‘women produce nothing’ becomes particularly ludicrous.

--Alice von Hildebrand

QUOTATION: Catholic Parenting

The parents’ most fundamental duty is to prepare their children for eternity.

--Fr. John Hardon

QUOTATION: Teaching About Final Judgement

Wherefore, I exhort you, when we receive children from the nurse, let us not accustom to old wives’ stories, but let them learn from their first youth that there is a Judgment, that there is a punishment; let it be infixed in their minds. This fear being rooted in them produces great good effects. For a soul that that has learnt from its first youth to be subdued by this expectation, will not soon shake off this fear. But like a horse obedient to the bridle, having the thought of hell seated upon it, walking orderly, it will both speak and utter things profitable; and neither youth nor riches, not an orphan state, not any other thing, will be able to injure it, having its reason so firm and able to hold out against everything.

-St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on 2 Thessalonians, Homily 2.

QUOTATION: Parenting

Some probably believe the reason why Cain turned out so badly was because Eve had no books on child psychology.

--Archbishop Fulton Sheen