Quotes About Parenting

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

But the withholding of information from a child either frustrates him or makes him seek it for himself. And the trouble with the latter method is that it is apt to make the child feel both guilty and dishonest.

Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?

A child, yes, is a vortex of anxieties.

One night my mother said to me: "Your father is younger than you. You're growing up and he's still a child. He'll remain a child forever, an extraordinarily intelligent child hypnotized by his games. If you don't keep an eye on him, he gets hurt. I should have understood him as a girl, but then he seemed to me a grown man.

it possible that our parents never die, that every child inevitably conceals them in himself? Would my mother truly emerge from me, with her limping gait, as my destiny?

Que bobagem pensar que é possível falar de si mesmo aos filhos antes que eles tenham pelo menos cinquenta anos. Querer ser vista por eles como uma pessoa e não como uma função. Dizer: sou sua história, vocês começam comigo, escutem, pode ser útil.

Sarratore's son is really unbearable.

How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function.

Soon she'll start yelling, I thought, soon she'll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.

My daughter is a girl," Fernando explained, embarrassed.

How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.

Bio je to izbor od kojega ju je majka odmah pokušala odvratiti. Majka je znala da njeno dijete takvom vrstom glazbe ne?e uspjeti osvojiti srca mase, koju su i majka i dijete oduvijek prezirale, ona prva zato što je oduvijek bila malen, bezna?ajan dio te mase, a potonja jer se od po?etka trudila da ne postane takav mali, bezna?ajni dio.

and he said, i have to stay at home and help momma and attend to him, when he comes from work and fetch the beer from the innkeeper, that takes eight minutes there and back, and if it takes longer, then i'll break your back. and why should you, my daughter, be better off than me?

Most parents are so convinced of their little darling's innocence that, by proxy, in rallying for junior's purity they come to believe in their own innocence—as if duplicating oneself will make a right!

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

Where the parents are not 'good enough' the rest of the programme for life may be distorted and later stages in the archetypal sequence may fail to be realized. Thus, the boy whose father was inadequate or absent may fail to actualize his masculine potential sufficiently to establish the social or vocational role his talents equip him for, or he may be unable to sustain a relationship with a member of the opposite sex long enough for him to become an adequate husband or father himself.

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

A child who is very close to own father is likely to grow up as a better person for the nation and the world than a kid who is too close to own mother.

A mother is so,so selfish that she even cooks the dish for her children only of her own liking only ,but asks them as what they want to have to merely see if their food demand matches with her wish.