Top 5 Hal Edward Runkel Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The battle over the messy room is a battle over space. When we choose to call it her room but then continue to act like the room belongs to us, we invade our child’s space and eliminate the possibility that she can develop her own sense of respect for her own space.”

— Hal Edward Runkel

2. “And I can think of no more accurate description of how most of us parents feel far too much of the time. Far too often, we feel overwhelmed. We feel overstretched, overcommitted, underprepared, and underappreciated. That’s a recipe for feeling overwhelmed. As a result, most of us feel a gnawing sense of inadequacy. We don’t just feel like bad parents, we feel like failures.”

— Hal Edward Runkel

3. “How we live today determines so much of how we will live tomorrow...”

— Hal Edward Runkel

4. “We are not responsible for our children and the choices they make; we are responsible to them, however, for the choices we make.”

— Hal Edward Runkel

5. “Whenever we label our children, even in innocent recognition of certain characteristics, we severely limit their space to become anything else.”

— Hal Edward Runkel

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