All the important phrases that a parent should dedicate to their older children

Has your son grown up and is it already time for his first experiences abroad or in any case outside the home? What a great achievement! It scares you as much as he is ...rest assured that he will miss you almost as much as you will miss him! Ready to dispense some maternal advice even from afar? Find out about the city where he will live and in what neighborhood; then reassure him about the things that can happen when you go to live together, like the ones in the video!

The relationship between parents and adult children

It is always difficult for a parent to accept that their child has grown up or even a full-fledged adult. When did it happen? In the eyes of mum and dad we are always a bit "big boys ...
Relationships, however, inevitably change and begin as early as adolescence when the first clashes about ideas, lifestyles, timetables, clothing ... in short, everything!
The conversations become more and more drawn and the tones brighter, but fortunately nothing is immobile and even the turbulent period of adolescence leaves room for the maturity of the 30-year-olds who after years away from home, life experiences and more or less close jobs come together spontaneously to parents, perhaps with the excuse of making them grandparents!

To continue to have a strong bond with your children, even if they are grown up, it is essential not to stop communicating; even when you fight there is still hope, because it means that the communication channel is still open on both sides! If you are not good with words but still want to express your love and affection for that child you once have carried in the belly, you can peek through the proposals of this article.

Continuing the reading you will find some targeted phrases to wish happy birthday to your children in an affectionate way, to convey your nostalgia by remembering the time that passes and to let them know how important they are in your life. There is also a space for aphorisms and dedications for mother-son and father-daughter. Read now the most beautiful phrases to dedicate to your children, big or small!

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Beautiful quotes about older children and the passing of time

Love for one's children has no time and is a universal feeling that every parent in the world experiences on their own skin. Over the years, many authors have tried to express these emotions in words, at the birth of the first child, at the first achievement or when they have been amazed by an attitude they are particularly proud of. Taking a cue from some phrases dedicated to older children and the passage of time can be an "opportunity to pass on valuable life lessons to your children, with words borrowed from those who work there with words.
Here are the most beautiful phrases on this topic:


A child enters your house and for the next twenty "years there is such a din that you can barely bear it. Then the child leaves, leaving the house so quiet that you think you are on the verge of going mad.
(John Andrew Holmes)

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes a sage.
(Alden Albert Nowlan)

In life you have to do three things: have a child, write a book, plant a tree.
(Zen proverb)

Making the decision to have a child is important. It is to decide to have your heart around forever outside the body.
(Elizabeth Stone)

Don't talk "to" your children, take their faces in your hands and talk "with" them.
(Leo Buscaglia)

What supports the clay pedestal of the world is the pure breath of your children.
(Chinese proverb)

Tell your child that he is beautiful and has colorful eyes, take him to see the meadows when they bloom and read him a book before bed. Also encourage him to write poems and explain to him how to erase the "never" and lengthen the syllables and spaces of "yes". And if he is a dreamer, teach him to take his first walks in the clouds.
And above all listen to it when the wind of the years is stronger and takes away the words and certainties.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)

I have encountered many forms of beauty in my life. The sea at sunset, the reflections of clouds and leaves, the pages of books, the ancient light of the stars and that, no less dazzling, of the moon. But more than anything else I met my son's eyes.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)

All grown-ups were children once, but few of them remember it.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

phrases for older children: Antoine De Saint Exupery

Before I got married, I had six theories about raising children. Now, I have six children and no theory.
(John Wilmot)

The child resembles the unconscious: it reminds us that we are not masters in our house ... It forces us to carry out a decentralization operation. The time of life no longer coincides with the time of our life but acquires a new depth.
(Massimo Recalcati)

The child's task is to become a poem, that is, to become something that was not foreseen by the "Other, something new, a life different from the life of the other".
(Massimo Recalcati)

A child does not need big toys, a son just needs a sincere smile, a caress from his mother, a kind word from his father - small things that fill the wealth of experiences that a son will be able to give to his children.

A child also changes the rhythm of your heart.

You can learn many things from children: for example, all the patience you have.
(Franklin P. Jones)

Making your children capable of being honest is the principle of education.
(John Ruskin)

You have to let your children go if you want them to stay with you.
(Malcolm Forbes)

A child has the extraordinary ability to piss you off, move you, make you laugh and miss you to death.
In just three hours.

Children must be educated, but it is also necessary that they educate themselves.
(Ernest Dimnet)

There is something like a golden thread running through a man's words when he speaks to his daughter; gradually over the years that thread becomes long enough to weave a cloth of pure gold that is love.
(John Gregory Brown)

Hey! Never let anyone tell you you can't do something. Me neither. Ok? If you have a dream you have to protect it. If you want something, go and chase it.

If you want your child to walk honorably through the world, you must not clear his path of stones, but teach him to walk stably on them. Do not insist on guiding him by taking him by the hand, but allow him to learn to go alone.
(Anne Brontë)

Life is a flame that gradually burns out, but which catches fire every time a child is born. (George Bernard Shaw)


Each of these quotes can be used to accompany a greeting card or an image to send via Whatsapp. But know that there are some phrases designed specifically for the day of your child's birth and that you may prefer to use to wish them happy birthday. find in the next paragraph!

phrases for older children: Malcolm Forbes

Happy birthday wishes to dedicate to the children

The day of the birth of the children is also the day when a man and a woman became mom and dad. Before that they had no idea what would overwhelm them, but once they found out they certainly didn't back down! These birthday wishes are to be dedicated to your children on their special day, no matter if the kids are small or big, because it is an important occasion and as such it should be celebrated. Especially during festive occasions it is necessary to find a moment to remind them how unique that love you feel for them is, even if it were only with a gesture or a handwritten note.


We are grateful not only for having you as a daughter but also for the love, kindness and support you give us. We wish you a fantastic birthday and a spectacular future. Your parents.

I hope that in your life you will always look forward with a smile on your face and look back with affection in your heart.

I wish you infinite joy in life on your birthday, may this day be filled with wonder and joy. Happy birthday my son.

We may not be perfect parents, but we are lucky to have a perfect child like you. Happy birthday!

I am grateful every day that you came into my world. Your smiles and laughter are balm to my heart. You have brought nothing but happiness into my life. Happy birthday son!

Thank you my son for giving me the opportunity to experience such complete love. Fill my days with warmth, wonder and joy. I hope your birthday is filled with happiness.

I hope your birthday this year is just the beginning of an unforgettable journey that will take you into an even more amazing future. Always remember to keep wishing and dreaming.

You are the best thing I have ever created. It is truly a miracle that he was able to father a wonderful child like you. Best wishes!

The memories of you baby are so sweet to my soul, but I'm sure the future will be even more beautiful. I hope your cake is half as sweet as you are. Happy birthday my son!

You are a treasure from above that brings me joy and love. Happy birthday son!

For your birthday I wish I could stop time, not just to keep you with me forever, but to stop feeling so old! Happy birthday to my son who at least makes me feel young at heart.

Happy birthday to the best son you could wish for, I wish you to realize your goals and make your dreams come true!

Today, which is your birthday, we should give you a gift, but no gift will ever match the gift you gave us when you were born! Greetings from mom and dad.

phrases for older children: happy birthday ones

Phrases of love for their children

Are you looking for an affectionate phrase to address to your child? These below overflow with love and are the ideal children's dedications to send to grown children or grown up children.


No one else will know how great my love is for you. After all, you are the only one who knows how my heart beats from within.

Always honor soap bubbles. Like man, they are made of breath and come from a breath. Like the human body they are a texture of water. With transparency they show silence. A breath makes them fly in the air and they chase each other like kisses, as life does not return.

You children don't even imagine how much your parents' happiness depends on your smile.

It is not the flesh or the blood, but the heart that makes us parents.

The family is the place where love never ends, at most it multiplies.

You are not only my baby. You are my life, my soul, my heart, you are love.

Our main goal is to love you, support you and always be by your side, wherever the path of your life takes you. Do you know when mom and dad went from an ordinary life to an extraordinary life? When they became the parents of a beautiful daughter / beautiful son, like you.

Parenting a beautiful daughter / beautiful son like you has always been our greatest wish, greatest privilege, greatest dream and greatest purpose of our life.

There is nothing more precious than love. If a parent manages to pass it on to their children, they will have received the most sacred inheritance in the world.

A son is a son: a life generated by us but destined for him, for his good, for the good of the family, of society, of all humanity.
(Pope francesco)

You are the bows from which your children, living arrows, are shot forth. The archer sees the target on the path of infinity, and tends you with his power so that his arrows can go fast and far. Be joyful your reaching out in the hand of the Archer; for if he loves the darting dart, so he loves the bow which remains steadfast.
(Khalil Gibran)

Children are like kites: you will teach them to fly, but they will not fly your flight. You will teach them to dream, but they will not dream your dream. You will teach them to live, but they will not live your life. But in every flight, in every dream and in every life, the imprint of the teaching received will remain forever.

We are not perfect parents but we are ourselves. Deeply and madly in love with our children!

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Thoughts full of affection for only children

Nowadays there are more and more families made up of three people: mom, dad and son. When the couple has only one baby they tend to pour out all their affection towards him, dedicating him a thousand attentions and making him grow like a prince or a princess.
Let's find some famous quotes about only children to encourage them to achieve their goals in life.

If you know what you are doing, happiness will always be attainable, if you don't know what you want, unhappiness will often be incomprehensible. If you really know who you are, happiness will be longing for what you have inside, at the bottom of your soul. (Marlene Kuntz)

Don't lose faith in yourself. So you won't lose trust in others either.
(Pema Chodron)

If you can occupy the inexorable minute by giving value to every moment that passes, Yours is the earth and all that is in it, And - what's more - you are a Man, my son!
(Joseph Rudyard Kipling)

The mother's heart is always the largest, because as the only child fits comfortably, so are the numerous children just as comfortably.

My brother is an only child | because he is convinced that Chinaglia cannot go to Frosinone, | because he is convinced that in the "Benedictine bitter | there is not the secret of happiness, | because he is convinced that even those who do not read Freud can live for a hundred" years.
(Rino Gaetano)

A child also changes the rhythm of your heart.

Having a child means manifesting absolute agreement with man. If I have a child, it is as if I said: I was born, I tasted life and I found that it is so good that it deserves to be multiplied. (Milan Kundera)

Raising a child is moving towards the future and going back to the past. And "making plans and experiencing memories is being an adult and a child, like a rocking horse that sways in the room of time.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)

I will protect you as long as you are grown up and, therefore, I will continue to protect you.

You are the light of my days, my great happiness, my greatest joy.

Without my son, maybe my house would be clean and my wallet would be full, but my heart would be completely empty.

They say the first obligation to our children is to make them happy. I hope, son, that I have fulfilled this wonderful mandate with you.
(Edgardo Chas)

I must not make you avoid the difficulties of life, but teach you to overcome them. But don't worry, you'll always have my hand.

phrases for older children: Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Dedications for my daughter as a dad

Heart of dad and princess of the house: a daughter for a father is this and much more! The phrases of love to daughters are so tender that you would hardly believe that a man wrote them. But a father melts in front of his daughter the moment they know each other and from there starts a great love story that will last all. a life. The dedications for daughters are specially designed to express how magnificent the bond that unites them to their father is and nothing pleases the child of the house more than receiving a dedication written by her hero. Read the most beautiful dedications from a father to a daughter.



My tender sprout, which I do not love because you have blossomed again on my plant, but because you are so weak and love has granted you to me.
(Umberto Saba)

And you got us up from the sky, you found us and slowly you came down, a passage from a seagull, it placed you on a rock and it was you.
(Fabio Concato)

I will overcome the gravitational currents, space and light so as not to make you grow old. I will save you from all melancholy because you are a special being and I will take care of you ... Yes, I will take care of you.
(Franco Battiato)

To my daughter. Never forget that I love you. Life is full of hard times and good times. Learn from everything around you and be the woman I know you can be.

I don't want my daughter to follow in my footsteps. I want him to take the path beside me and go beyond what I could ever have imagined.

A daughter is a person with whom you laugh, dream and love with all your heart.

Dear daughter, in my life you are the sun that never sets and the moon that never sets.

Dear daughter, I had no doubts even for a moment: I love you and I believe in you. You are my reason for living.

Having a baby girl was like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn off.

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be your best friend.

You are always with me my daughter, like a handprint on my heart.

You are my sun, my moon and all the stars dear daughter.

Your smile makes me smile, your laugh is contagious, your heart is pure and true. And most of all I love the fact that you are my daughter.

You are such a beautiful girl and I am so proud of the amazing way you are growing up. Even though you are so young you are full of wisdom and kindness, understanding and courage.

phrases for older children: Fabio Concato

Keep phrases for my son

Just as there is a special bond between daughters and fathers, there is a similar bond between mother and son.
The phrases of love for a child can be really moving because we often tend to preserve certain pearls for special occasions, such as an anniversary or a milestone (graduation). Wishing all the best to your child can be an excellent excuse to remind him how the affection you feel for him is getting bigger as he grows up. Here are the most beautiful love phrases to dedicate to a male child.


If you need me call me. It doesn't matter if I'm sleeping, if I have my problems or if I'm mad at you. If you need me and you need to talk, I'll always be there for you. No matter how big or small your problem is… no matter how old you are… I will always be there for you, wherever you are.

My hand at one point left your finger holding me tightly, but keep holding your heart tight wherever you are.

You are really growing up: it seems to me yesterday that I held you in my arms and now it is already your eighteenth birthday. Greetings my boy!

You have been tenderness, fragility, joy, happiness, peace ... now I know what you are, you are pure love and without you I could not live, you my son are my life. If I look at everything I have done in my life, you are the best part. You have been an amazing son and you have become a wonderful man.

Even if you are growing and they become great, you are always for us the beat of our heart, the reason for our every breath, our completeness, our oxygen, our salvation. Simply our everything! Happy birthday! Which then does not take much to make a mother happy: just always put on clean underwear and go slow even when you go on foot.

There comes a time when children come off your hands, like on a swing, when you push them for a while and then let them go. As they climb higher than you, you can't help but wait, and hope they stand firm on the ropes. The oscillation gives them back to you, sooner or later, but different and never again yours.

If one day you feel too big to kiss your mom. Know that your mom will never be too old to kiss you. Happy birthday my son. Son, spread your wings and fly free, explore life and I will look at it through your eyes.

phrases for older children: dedicated to male children

Quotes about the children of Maria Theresa of Calcutta

The figure of Maria Theresa of Calcutta is known throughout the world for her benevolence and for her particular commitment to the family. A great woman with an immense heart, she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her dedication to the less fortunate. Below you can read some of his best-known quotes addressed to his children.

Children are like kites: you will teach them to fly but they will not fly your flight; you will teach them to dream but they will not dream your dream; you will teach them to live but they will not live your life. But in every flight, in every dream and in every life, the imprint of the teaching received will remain forever.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

Parents need to be trustworthy, not perfect. Children must be happy, do not make us happy.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

Yesterday passed. Tomorrow is yet to come. We only have today. If we help our children to be what they should be today, they will have the courage to face life with more love.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

Try to instill love for home in the hearts of your children. Make them long to be with their family. Many sins could be avoided if our people truly loved their homes.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

What is the worst defeat? Be discouraged! What are the best teachers? The children!
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

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