Parenting Quotes - Page 20

One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur.

Steve Maraboli

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.

Bell Hooks

Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.

Clifford Cohen

We need to substitute ‘trier’ for failure. The word ‘fail’ is closely related to the word fall. A child taking his first step falls, cries and then tries again. Why does he try again? Because he wants to, but does not, know the meaning of failure.

Anup Kochhar

Women's magazines sadly remark that children can have a disruptive effect on the conjugal relationship, that the young wife's involvement with her children and her exhaustion can interfere with her husband's claims on her. What a notion- a family that is threatened by its children! Contraception has increased the egotism of the couple: planned children have a pattern to fit into; at least unplanned children had some of the advantages of contingency. First and foremost they were whether their parents liked it or not. In the limited nuclear family the parents are the principals and children are theirs to manipulate in a newly purposive way. The generation gap is being intensified in these families where children must not inconvenience their parents, where they are disposed of in special living quarters at special times of day, their own rooms and so forth. Anything less than this is squalor. Mother must not have more children than she can control: control means full attention for much of the day, then isolation.

Germaine Greer

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. A sterilized parent is a eunuch in his children's haremm. to be sure, I recognize that efficient contraception is necessary for sexual pleasure, and that sexual pleasure is necessary, but contraception for economic reasons is another matter. 'We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'. A sterilized parent is forever bound to those children he has, more than ever immobile and predictable, and those children are more securely bound to him. 'We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-discipline middle-class children who grow up to be professionals', for children manage to use up all the capital that is made available for that purpose, whatever proportion it may be of the family's whole income, just as housework expands to fill the time available. The sterilized parent is the ultimate domestic animal.

Germaine Greer

Wife: I want to have a child.Husband: I can't imagine bringing a child into this messed-up world.Wife: That's exactly the reason we should do it. We need to bring something good into this world to balance out the bad.

Matt Kindt

If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for.

Germaine Greer

A generation of children is not only being raised indoors, but is being confined to even smaller spaces. Jane Clark, a University of Maryland professor of kinesiology . . . calls them "containerized kids"--they spend more and more time in car seats, high chairs, and even baby seats for watching TV. When small children go outside, they're often placed in containers--strollers--and pushed by walking or jogging parents. . . Most kid-containerizing is done for safety concerns, but the long term health of these children is compromised. (35)

Richard Louv

No children are so divine that they do not need responsible parenting and be taught proper manners.

Anni Sennov

Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down.

Stacey Lee

Reckless behavior, particularly in young boys, may be the uncontrolled expression of a legitimate, even Godly, desire to strive after great and noble deeds. And when the desire for adventure follows a God-honoring course, exciting things can happen.

Hal and Melanie Young

It may be that mothers have a hard time discerning between when sons need comforting and when they need bucking up. Here's a rule of thumb: If he hasn't faced the trial yet, or he's in the midst of it - encourage him. If he's been to the wars and is limping home wounded - comfort him. Once the wounds are bound up, encourage him to rise and face the fight again.

Hal and Melanie Young

Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.

Seth Adam Smith

The zeal of kids is to explore! Until you know how to sustain the real interest of your child, the real interest of your child shall be sustained by something else!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's our children who teach us how to be parents.

Susie Morgenstern

We begin to understand that to co-parent is to one day look up and notice that you are on a roller coaster with another human being. You are in the same car, strapped down side by side and you can never, ever get off. There will never be another moment in your lives when your hearts don't rise and fall together, when your stomach doesn't churn in tandem, when you stop seeing huge hills emerge in the distance and simultaneously grab the sides of the car and hold on tight. No one except for the one strapped down beside you will ever understand the particular thrills and terrors of your ride.

Glennon Doyle Melton

Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish.

Abhijit Naskar

Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise.

Abhijit Naskar

Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species.

Abhijit Naskar

History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you being one. This is easier as a sober artist in Santa Barbara than as an alcoholic jailbird in Leith.

Irvine Welsh

Your child is least interested in what the report card says. All that matters to him / her is what you say on seeing the report card.

Manoj Arora

The phrase ‘Boys will be boys,’ reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.

Kilroy J. Oldster

When your kids get excited, let them have that feeling and share the excitement with them. Sharing makes it bigger.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.

Khaled Hosseini

Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.

Bruce Lansky

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The best gift you can give your children is to keep yourself emotionally, physically, spiritually and intellectually healthy.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

We must remain calm as parents and try not to lose control of ourselves, when we become parents. For how can we expect our kids to control themselves if we can’t do it? That seems unfair.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

Worrying about life’s circumstances of those I love, but over which I have no control is a dangerous, never-ending and pointless game to play.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the result is the opposite of what you hope and dream for. This seemed so unfair.

Jeffery Deaver

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it when I have children of my own. They say I would understand it when I go through the experience myself. It is not easy to raise children into adults. There are so many things that could go wrong.

Marcella Purnama

...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

Leo Tolstoy

She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again for her children.

Rhian J. Martin

One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the trees. I pray to the wind that he will grow old and die well.

Jessica Bates

Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It’s called being an example.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Reject the fearmongering. Adopt best practices. Slow down.

Jane Scott

A kid is what you feed it,plus from that what can be gathered.

Will Advise

Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?

Sarah Perry

More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi – more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton.

Abhijit Naskar

Force your kids to pursue success and they shall be drowned into the abyss of characterlessness, but let them pursue excellence and they shall rise as glorious Gods.

Abhijit Naskar

Human making is our mission, but if you break the very soul of the would-be humans, then there will be no human to raise.

Abhijit Naskar

Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.

Abhijit Naskar

Let your child be the torch of truth and they shall shine over the entirety of the human society brightening even the darkest corners.

Abhijit Naskar

There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when the life you create becomes the help in the lives of countless other humans.

Abhijit Naskar

Do not raise creepy crawlers my dear braveheart parents. Raise mighty humans with Himalayan strength in their veins. Give them the voice that has gone extinct in today’s society. And if there is only one thing you could give to your children, then give them courage – courage to pursue their passion – courage to trample every obstacle in their path – courage to keep walking even when their heart bleeds in agony.

Abhijit Naskar

With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

Elaine N. Aron

The most important question I ask myself as a parent is this. How can I best help my children be fully themselves and happy with who they are in the world, however they show up.

Lehla Eldridge

The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would fight tigers barehanded, climb down cliffs, throw myself in the path of a speeding car, and even do calculus again if I needed to, for this child.

Kiran Manral

Unless there was an open heart, and caring hands, and listening ears, the children will not be able to correct their steps alone, or overcome their wrong habits that still need their parents’ efforts, patience and big and continuous support.

Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

Garry Chapman

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