Quotes About Parenting

I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.

I love dressing Mason more than dressing myself. It's so much fun picking out his clothes and making outfits and giving him style.

The fact that I have had so much time to be a dad and to be around my children is brilliant.

for this present child of my brain, what I give it I give unconditionally and irrevocably, just as one does to the children of one's body; such little good as I have already done it is no longer mine to dispose of; it may know plenty of things which I know no longer, and remember things about me that I have forgotten; if the need arose to turn to it for help, it would be like borrowing from a stranger. It is richer than I am, yet I am wiser than it. Few devotees of poetry would not have

That father may truly be said miserable that holdeth the affection of his children tied unto him by no other means than by the need they have of his help or want of his assistance

have seen no other effects in rods but to make children's minds more remiss or more maliciously headstrong.

Amy, his mother, is not the mending type. Her speciality is thrashing grown-up men until they whimper for mercy.

Santo had the right to love them both equally, without feeling the pressure of having one parent's dislike of the other to corrupt his view - a point brought home to them both by a stern grandmother, who had found herself flung into the role of referee between them at a time when their mutual hostility had been running at its highest.

You don't need to blame your parents for teaching you to be like them. What else could they teach you but what they know? They did the best they could, and if they abused you, it was due to their own domestication, their own fears, their own beliefs. They had no control over the programming they received, so they couldn't have behaved any differently.

We are told, "You're a good boy," or "You're a good girl," when we do what Mom and Dad want us to do. When we don't, we are "a bad girl" or "a bad boy." When we went against the rules we were punished; when we went along with the rules we got a reward. We were punished many times a day, and we were also rewarded many times a day. Soon we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving the reward.

Most of the time when we tell our children how to live their lives, it's because we don't respect them. We feel sorry for them, and we try to do for them what they should do for themselves.

The adults can only teach us what they know; they cannot teach us what they don't know. What they know is what they learned in their whole lives; it's what they believed in their whole lives. You can be sure that your parents did the best they could for you at the time. If they didn't do better, it's because they didn't know any better.

No culpes a tus padres por enseñarte a ser como ellos. ¿Qué otra cosa podían enseñarte sino lo que sabían? Lo hicieron lo mejor que supieron, y si te maltrataron, fue debido a su propia domesticación, a sus propios miedos y a sus propias creencias. No tenían ningún control sobre la programación que ellos mismos recibieron, de modo que no podían actuar de otra forma.

Imagine when we teach our children to be secure in themselves, and to have their own voice. Imagine how everything will change if we bring respect to any relationship.

These people have will and desire too. But in *this* world a hundred codes and schools tell them not to *exercise* it -- to *restrain* desire, until desire turns into poison. And then to tell their children that *poison* is wholesome food.

But with five kids and a wife who only worked part time

Een kind hebben betekent zich absoluut uitspreken voor de mens. Als ik een kind heb, dan is het alsof ik zou zeggen: Ik ben geboren, ik heb het leven geproefd en ben er achter gekomen dat het goed genoeg is en dat het verdient herhaald te worden.

Tener un hijo significa que se está absolutamente de acuerdo con el hombre. Si tengo un hijo, es como si dijera: He nacido, he experimentado la vida y he comprobado que es tan buena que merece ser repetida. -¿Y usted no cree que la vida sea buena? -preguntó Bertlef. Jakub procuró hablar con precisión y dijo con cautela: -Lo único que sé es que nunca podría decir con profunda convicción: El hombre es un ser magnífico y quiero repetirlo.

Teresa se avergonzó desde su infancia de que la madre hubiera ocupado los rasgos de su cara y confiscado su yo. Pero lo peor era que el antiguo imperativo ¡ama a tu padre y tu madre! La obligaba a estar de acuerdo con aquella ocupación y a llamar aquella agresión amor

Pišemo knjige zato što se naša deca ne zanimaju za nas. Obra?amo se anonimnom svetu zato što naša žena zatvara uši kad joj se obra?amo.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.