Quotes About Parenting

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but that's one of the questions I've learned not to ask, because I'll get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person.

If they're letting her cry anyway, I don't really see the point of the baby monitor, but that's one of those questions I've learned not to ask, because I'll just get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person.

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

No child will ever accept a maxim that is preached but not followed by the preacher. It is a waste of breath for the father to order his Sons to keep their temper, to behave like gentlemen, or to be good sportsmen, if he does or is himself none of these things.

If children see temper uncontrolled, hear gossip, uncharitableness and suspicion of neighbors, witness arrogant sharp-dealing or lax honor, their own characters can scarcely escape perversion. In the same way others can not easily fail to be thoroughbred who have never seen or heard their parents do or say an ignoble thing.

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

I wish I knew what you were talking about," she returned. "Where's the pin?" "Pin?" "Yes. Pin. To fasten the diaper. The kid can't hold the thing up with two hands.

There are people? in your home? human beings? drowning in their desire for you to look them in the eye. You made this family. And all you have to do is to show up and like them. It's called 'relating'. So get over whatever totally-absent-buying-your-affection parenting that you received and get here, man? because this is your LIFE and you're just pissing it away.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

Vede, i bambini ci educano come noi li educhiamo. M. deve precisamente insegnarle a trionfare sulla sua ansietà profonda imparando a immettere una creatura nella vita senza preoccuparsi eccessivamente del domani.

One boy is more trouble that a dozen girls.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Can you understand when I tell you that you owe me nothing? That to have a child is an account which is settled on the spot

Insisto en que los padres no deben olvidar que son los primeros educadores y que educan más por lo que hacen que por lo que dicen.

Entre semana, fatigado por la jornada laboral, Luis Mario nunca estaba de humor para jugar con sus hijos. Entraba a casa con la mirada ausente, como un autómata esquivo, y a duras penas les dirigía la palabra, salvo en sus crudas dominicales, cuando necesitaba que alguien le cambiara los canales del televisor.

Man hält sich Kinder nicht zum Vergnügen, wie Blumen oder Zebras. Kinder zu haben ist eine Berufung, eine heilige Pflicht, ein Lebensinhalt

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'