Quotes About Parenting

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Bagi para penulis, karya adalah belahan jiwa mereka. Atau dalam bahasa yang lebih sederhana, mereka menganggap karya mereka sudah seperti anak sendiri. Penulis mencintai karya yang dilahirkannya layaknya para orangtua di dunia yang mencintai anak-anak mereka.

Tapi tentu saja ada perbedaan antara 'menyayangi' dan 'membesarkan dengan baik'. Membesarkan dengan baik berarti memikirkan masa depannya dan memutuskan segala sesuatu yang terbaik untuknya. Namun aku tak bisa melakukan semua itu karena telanjur memperoleh sebuah objek tempat aku bisa menumpahkan seluruh rasa cintaku padanya. Uesugi

Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

It is a terrible and exquisitely human irony that children inadequately nurtured almost never give up on the breast. The thirst for love from a mother or father who cannot provide it is seemingly unquenchable. I have treated sixty- and seventy-year-old business executives, politicians, and physicians still desperate for approval from shriveled, emotionally barren men and women in their eighties and nineties. (257)

I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

There are three things in this world that engender deep emotional bonds between people. They are health, wealth and children.

Our tremendous drive for social acceptance and toward conformity in our time is causing us to train our children to be a generation of young liars who do not even realise they are lying. We train our children to be subtly dishonest almost from the crib. "Shh... don't cry in front of all these people.

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

I was husband for a week. Changed the baby's diapers. There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know i wiped his ass

I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.

The key point here bears repeating: I have decided on an argument ("Technology has weakened parenting skills"), but I didn't start with that argument in mind. Instead, I started by reading lots of data under the umbrella of the unit of study, and it was through the reading of this data that my research question emerged.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!

Creo que fue la actriz y cómica estadounidense Phyllis Diller quien dijo que nos pasamos los tres primeros años de vida de nuestro hijo enseñándole a caminar y a hablar, y los siguientes doce años en la escuela diciéndole que se siente y se calle.

When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don't know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn't really care.

Tog dana vra?aju?i se iz hotela plaza govorila je sama sebi da je njen ponosni gest, koji bi Zejnil smatrao bezumnim, važniji za dijete od svih pelena na svijetu, jer smješteno u njoj tako intimno zavisno od nje ono mora upiti u sebe njenu pobunu i prkos.

Family dysfunction is progressive. It never stays the same. As it progresses, appropriate boundaries between parent and child may become nonexistent and communication becomes increasingly strained.

There's nothing loving or caring about a close parent-child relationship when it services the needs and feelings of a parent rather than the child.

Mothers and Dads: Your home atmosphere is the product of WORDS. Children fail because wrong WORDS were spoken. The right WORDS were not spoken.

TRAIN up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6).