Quotes About Parenting

He knew that one of the things he was supposed to do as a parent was to show trust in his child, to build a sense of trust and confidence into the bedrock of relationship between them. He had had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.' 'Why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen.

Charming man,' he said. 'I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one . .

There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.

In every society on earth the child is regarded as a member of his parents' groups.

I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents.

As we hoped, our kids began to learn Italian. One day Isaac sat down to dinner, looked at the plate of pasta we'd prepared, made a face, and said, "Che schifo!" a vulgar expression meaning "Gross!" We were so proud.

No!" was a constant refrain in our house after Jennie arrived. Hugo told me I used to shout it in my sleep!

Sarah was nine years old that summer. Her passions were reading and music. Sarah devoured books, sometimes two a day. Lea had to check her every night to make sure she turned out her light, or she would read to all hours and drag herself down to breakfast with dark circles under her eyes.

But I knew even then that I did not want my sons to act for me in the world, any more than I wished for them to kill or die for their country. I wanted to act, to live, in myself and to love them for their separate selves.

The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Do not antagonize your son! He is of an age to choose for himself. Because his choice is not your choice, do not assume that you must be right. If it is a misfortune—then accept misfortune. Be at hand to aid him when he needs aid. But do not turn him against you.

More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.

Many children, most children, I should say, suffer from over-attention on the part of their parents. There is too much love, too much watching over the child.

One does not blow one's brains out because one has a headstrong daughter!

That child, said Sophia, is a bit of a problem.

Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

Getting help for yourself can sometimes be the best thing you can do for your baby.

But, as any parent in those days would have done, he said I would have to go to art school. As a lover of Cézanne and Van Gogh, I felt that such an academic approach would be a waste of time. Nor was I eager to take another entrance examination.

When I was small, it seems that I was very weak and sickly. My father used to complain about this state of affairs in spite of the fact that "we had the yokozuna [champion sumo wrestler] Umegatani hold you in his arms when you were a baby so that you would grow strong.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.