Parenting is filled with long days, big feelings, and constant learning. These are some of Sprout's favorite quotes for a parent to offer encouragement and inspiration along the way.

1. "You can't teach children to behave by making them feel worse. When children feel better, they behave better." 

-Pam Leo

2. "When we treat children as if they are incapable, they become incapable"

-Janet Lansbury

3. "The level of cooperation parents get from their children is usually equal to the level of connection children feel with their parents"

-Pam Leo

4. "Instead of training children to meet the expectations of adults, we should be training adults to meet the psychological, emotional and developmental needs of children" 

-Zoe Tolman

5. "Children don't need to have their feels agreed with; they need to have them acknowledged" 

-Joanna Faber & Julie King (How to talk so little kids will listen)

6. Children don't need to be treated equally. They need to be treated uniquely." 

-Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish (Siblings without Rivalry)

7. "Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach. Not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioral consequences." 

-Daniele J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson (The Whole Brain Child)

8. "Play is often talked about as it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood." 

-Fred Rogers

9. When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which is grows, not the flower."

-Alexander Den Heijer

10. "The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn." 

-Maria Montessori

11. "Yelling doesn't teach children to behave. Instead, it teaches them to be angry."

-Michaeleen Doucleff (Hunt, Gather, Parent)

What are some of your favorite parenting quotes? Drop them in the comments below!