Quotes About Parenting

My mother was the worst. She never scolded me, but kept begging me, with a sorrowful face, to tell her what she had done wrong.

After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one son and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.

apologized for smell of child's urine pot, which he held up, covered, said she'd been sick. Rooted

The point is that generally speaking, we tend to be identical to one or a combination of our parents in the arena of money.

Nog vore det skojigt för det lilla barnet att få ett litet syskon alltid. Ja, titta inte på mig, svarade Gudrun, Nu är det allt din tur!

door, or I'll kick it in. I mean it. And guess whose allowance will pay for the repairs?" She could hear him stirring then, muttering curse words. "No swearing!" she snapped. "You do it!" "Not when I think you can

Does your ma know you're this silly? she demanded tartly. He nodded, comically sad. The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But — with an exaggerated change of mood — I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed! I hope she beat you as a child, Onua grumbled.

The only way we learn how adults act is from the adults who raised us. The children of monsters become monstrous, too.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

A mother or father might be too preoccupied with how one child compares with another to be able to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the individual child.

My sweetest daughter," he whispered, "in whom I see no fault, know the depths of love. A love that knows no fear. A love that formed you and named you and gave you to me. A blessing beyond my understanding." His fingers trembled. "Eli is the gift I bring you. Hear him. Keep him safe. He knows the way out of this great deception.

The best thing a parent of a newly diagnosed child can do is to watch their child without preconceived notions and judgements and learn how the child functions, acts, and reacts to his or her world.

The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.

Dr. Underkirk gave her his kind-and-understanding look. ... "Obviously, it's entirely up to what you and your husband think is best. But—and this is as a dad as well as a doctor—I subscribe to the airplane emergency rule in life." "Um . . . always sight your horizon before attempting a powerless landing?" He laughed. "No. Always secure your oxygen mask first before attending to your child.

Your mother swears you were sleeping through the night by your second month, but she was feeding you some god-awful concoction of Karo syrup and condensed milk. That's got to be enough calories to stun an ox, let alone an eight-week-old." "I've seen pictures. I looked like a prize porker headed for the Washington County Fair.

I had taken my little eight-year-old's hand and taken her right into Internet porn.

I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

It just goes to show that our children are not carbon copies of us, even if we imagine that is how they will turn out. They have their own souls; they choose their own paths.

just goes to show that our children are not carbon copies of us, even if we imagine that is how they will turn out. They have their own souls; they choose their own paths.

I don't know what I would do if they let me down like that. If they didn't want to see me. I won't do that to Alan, no matter how angry I am with him. I'll make sure they continue to have a relationship with him, and they can judge him for themselves as they get older.

I hold him in my arms most of the time, whether he's awake or asleep, because I'm so in love, I don't want to set him down. The depth of my feeling is inconceivable. I can barely fathom it. I never knew such love was possible. He's the most beautiful thing in the universe to me, and I can't stop staring at him…adoring him….

that. "I know the feeling. I think it's part of being a parent. Sometimes you just want to go hide under a rock somewhere, but you have to stay strong for your kids, to keep their world upright.

I remind myself that my son is no longer the little boy I used to cuddle at night when we read bedtime stories together. He's a man now, living on his own. I'm proud of him and pleased that he's independent, even though I miss him every day.