There are many conflicting opinions about which methods should be used to raise our sons. However, the ultimate goal remains the same: to raise them to become good citizens.
We admire heroes, men who are brave, great husbands, and fathers. We want our boys to be like these men one day. This doesn’t need to be as wide-reaching as saving the world, but rather as in saving the day for the people around them every time they get a chance.
It would be great for parents if love, integrity, and a good set of principles would somehow be part of our sons’ DNA. But it is more about social learning, and so a parent’s voice and behavior are crucial for their son’s development.
We should be teaching our sons empathy and nurturing in a world that encourages gender equality. There are still many cultures who believe these qualities make men weaker. They actually make people human. The heroes we mentioned earlier possess them — we want our sons to become men, not tyrants.
Although raising a son is hard work, the end result is always worth it.
These are the details 25 quotes about sons that you’ll love:
You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.
Wally Schirra
You will see your son grow up quickly and feel proud of him for being responsible, safe, contributing and going above and beyond what you can imagine.
Steve Biddulph
A mother’s love for her son is a tenderness that lasts beyond all other feelings.
Washington Irving
If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud
Your boys should fly. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free.
C. J. Milbrandt
It’s not flesh and blood that makes us fathers and children, but the heart.
Friedrich von Schiller
Happy is the boy whose faith in his mother is unshaken
Louisa May Alcott
Do I want my son to be a hero? No. I’d like to be a real person. That’s hard enough.
Robert Downey Jr.
Let my wild, wild son run wild. Ooh, you’ll know it when you’re where you’re supposed to be.
Armin van Buuren & Sam Martin
Listen, my son, to your father’s instructions and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 1:8 (NIV)
Yet now in my arms I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man… I cannot imagine that soft little face one day having whiskers.
Rhonda Stoppe
He doesn’t know you’re watching him, but in this special, reflective moment, you realize he’s growing up. It’s really happening.
Robert Lewis
Though our new son is barely a part of our present, we look at his squirming, warm bundle of future potential and say to ourselves, ‘Hello, little man.’ Little do we know the adventure we are beginning!
Dr. Gregory L. jantz
The relationship between father and son could be reduced to biology and the entire earth would glow with the glory of fathers or sons.
James A. Baldwin
You will never understand what it means until you have a son. The joy beyond joy, the love that transcends feeling that a father feels when he looks at his son will be something you’ll never experience.
Kent Nerburn
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy
The best gift you can give your teenage boy? Let him know that you appreciate it. You’ve been there.
Sebastian R. Jones
You will be reading to your son every night, of course. Your son will love the books you read.
Michael Thompson
There is nothing more rewarding than being able to bring a newborn human into the world, and then trying your best to raise it properly for the next eighteen.
James C. Dobson
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
The Talmud
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it’s good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn
To help your son walk honourably in the world, don’t try to remove any stones. Instead, teach him to walk steadily over them.
Anne Bronte
My son should have the option to choose whether he wants to work in the workplace or at home.
Sheryl Sandberg
I, as the mother of a son refuse to accept that he must be separated from me in order to discover himself. I won’t allow my son to see me doing degrading things for women. I like to think the women in my son’s future are counting on me.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
My son is the most important legacy I leave in this world.
Sarah Shahi
