Quotes About Parenting

a good deal of unkindness and selfishness on the part of parents towards children is not generally followed by ill consequences to the parents themselves. They may cast a gloom over their children's lives for many years without having to suffer anything that will hurt them. I should say, then, that it shows no great moral obliquity on the part of parents if within certain limits they make their children's lives a burden to them.

You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

You came to develop an open heart. You chose to be in all the circumstances that closed your heart in the past. You chose parents who did not know how to love you, criticized you often, lacked time to spend with you, and acted in ways you had judged impossible to love in other lifetimes. Yet, because they were your parents and you were their child, you found it in your heart to love them, and thus grew spiritually by learning to love behaviors you had previously judged unlovable.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

When is the proper time for a child to start walking?" Korczak asks in these pages. "When she does. When should her teeth start cutting? When they do. How many hours should a baby sleep? As long as she needs to.

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.

We shall give, says father.

She must not interfere in her children's lives, but neither could she look away, no matter how much trouble they made for themselves.

Young children bump heads and sprain limbs and weep over lost toys, but the heartbreak of a grown child draws blood.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. —Gabriel García Márquez

Seems like those boys of mine get into three times as much trouble when school is out. I still don't understand how you get them to mind without a switch or at least a primed rifle over your arm." He reached over to help himself to the doughnuts.

The most important thing parents can do for their children, it is said, is love each other.

You know, if Tony had turned you over his knee more often instead of spoiling you rotten, you'd be a happy housewife now, instead of playing at detective and making it harder for us to get our job done. But I'm a happy detective, Bobby, and I made a lousy housewife.

A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.

It's a well-known fact that professional organizers who have a three-year-old and a toddler get an exemption from perfection.

One's aesthetic changes once one has a child.

For (D.L) Mayfield, "Parenting has made me eschew religiosity in exchange for a real relationship - full of questioning - of a God I hope is more loving than I can possibly imagine. I don't think we talk often enough about how children both make it essential and impossible to write. Madeleine for me is a patron saint of this.

Yet, as I will make clear, any Pleistocene woman who relied on looks alone to pull offspring through was not likely to be a mother very long or leave descendants.

A woman predisposed to be a mother can learn to love any baby, while a mother not so disposed does not even learn to love her own.