Quotes About Parenting

Each of his son's had been his favorite child.

This had often broken my heart, to realize that you never know the last time you pick up a child. Maybe you say "Oh, honey, you're getting too big to be picked up" or something like that. But then you never pick them up again.

I would give it all up, all the success I have had as a writer, all of it I would give up—in a heartbeat I would give it up—for a family that was together and children who knew they were dearly loved by both their parents who had stayed together and who loved each other too.

would give it all up, all the success I have had as a writer, all of it I would give up—in a heartbeat I would give it up—for a family that was together and children who knew they were dearly loved by both their parents who had stayed together and who loved each other too.

Each of his sons had been his favorite child.

I had often thought before: that there had been a last time—when they were little—that I had picked up the girls. This had often broken my heart, to realize that you never know the last time you pick up a child. Maybe you say "Oh, honey, you're getting too big to be picked up" or something like that. But then you never pick them up again.

And thinking of this now made me think of something I had often thought before: that there had been a last time - when they were little - that I had picked up the girls. This had often broken my heart, to realize that you never know the last time you pick up a child. Maybe you say "Oh honey, you're getting too big to be picked up" or something like that. But then you never pick them up again.

We talked about our girls and we both thought they would be all right; they were already all right but when you have children you worry about them forever

A crazy parent, America was. Good and openhearted one way, dismissive and cruel in others.

I felt terrible for this man who used to be my husband. We talked a long time about Estelle and Bridget, and then a little bit about our girls; he asked that he be the one to tell Chrissy and Becka about Estelle leaving, and I said, Of course.

The truth is, Olive, Amy is good to me, but she does live in Iowa, and I sometimes think when a child moves that far away they're really trying to get away from something, and in this case I suspect it's me.

But with my mother I didn't dare cry. Both my parents loathed the act of crying, and it's difficult for a child who is crying to have to stop, knowing if she doesn't stop everything will be made worse. This is not an easy position for any child.

Give a child a good birth (if at all possible, no drugs to the mother)=1 and a good first three years, especially a good first three months, and a major part of the job of child rearing is done.

The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours.

Parenthood is an unspeakably solemn matter.

when he returned, at 6 P.M. that day, i still hadn't seen the baby. He reminded them that i was supposed to breastfeed her. They told him he hadn't "written a prescription" for breastfeeding.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.

Padres e hijos viven distantes, rara vez lloran juntos y comentan sus sueños, dolores, alegrías, frustraciones.

Enseñe a sus hijos a hacer del escenario de su mente un teatro de alegría, y no un escenario de terror.

que as crianças mais precisam não é de roupa de grife, grandes presentes, Internet, mas de alegria, simplicidade, brincadeiras ao ar livre e do carinho e dedicação dos pais. Os pais que dão o mundo para elas, mas não dão a si mesmos e não as ensinam a pensar, geram crianças frágeis, dependentes e despreparadas para enfrentar os desafios dos labirintos.

Los padres que no enseñan a sus hijos a tener una visión crítica de la publicidad, de los programas de televisión, de la discriminación social, los convierten en presas fáciles del sistema predatorio.

Los padres brillantes no forman héroes, sino seres humanos que conocen sus limitaciones y sus fortalezas.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.