Quotes About Parenting

Gus, do I have to put you in a cage or something? Because I will! Don't push it, mister!" "As an officer of the court, I feel obliged to speak up and tell you that child imprisonment is against the law," I said. "Right. Well, then, I'll take that as your offer to babysit all four of my precious angels when you get home." "Then again, cages can be very comfortable.

She gave another eye roll and glided away. My admiration for my sister grew. One thing to have children...another to keep them when they hit adolescence.

His child was now officially smarter than he was, and he didn't like it.

I was pretty sure that somewhere in the mother's handbook, it said your kids shouldn't have to bribe you to get hugged.

I'm trying not to wet myself with excitement," I murmur back. "It's harder after having the triplets.

He was not Monica's biological child, and all the research said that no matter how good a mom she was, she would never be enough. Fathers didn't seem to be so accused in the literature.

You can't have a child and not experience terror and heartache in some way. Your little hijacker will hold you hostage for the rest of your life, and there's no getting around that—not by placing the child for adoption, not by abandoning the child, not by being as perfect a mother as possible. Your heart, naked and vulnerable, is now in the form of another person, and your life is never completely your own again.

Parenting isn't always a peachy-colored glow. Half the time, it's just showing up and doing your best.

You okay, sweetheart?" Daniel asked. He put the ice cream on the bedside table and sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes worried. I looked at him, then down at our little baby. "Never better," I said.

It's the wretched contradiction of parenting. Once, you were their favorite human on the planet, and they were yours. For the rest of your life, your child will remain your heart . . . but it's not mutual. It's not supposed to be. Your importance is dwarfed by their friends. Romantic interests. Cool professors and great coaches.

Her parents had basically abdicated their roles as guardians and she was building a bomb. In order to kill a poodle.

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.

Although she hadn't seen her parents for years, it turned out that a parent's disapproval was a powerful, lingering voice that shaped and defined one's self-image.

I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

All parental difficulties reflect themselves without fail in the psyche of the child, sometimes with pathological results.

Can I freely permit this staff member or my son or my daughter to become a separate person with ideas, purposes, and values which may not be identical with my own?

There seems every reason to suppose that the therapeutic relationship is only one instance of interpersonal relations, and that the same lawfulness governs all such relationships. Thus it seems reasonable to hypothesize that if the parent creates with his child a psychological climate such as we have described, then the child will become more self-directing, socialized, and mature.

You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.

Se non si perde tempo non si arriva da nessuna parte, cosa che i genitori degli adolescenti purtroppo dimenticano spesso.

To simplify, the state steals money—taxes—from parents in order to use that money to kidnap children from those very parents. This is why reform may be impossible, for the very nature of the system is unethical and based on the destruction of others.

I know you think your publishing work is incredibly important, but it's really not significant in the grand scheme of things. Nothing is more important than having children. There's absolutely nothing that a parent shouldn't be willing to sacrifice for their sake." She wiped a tear away from her eye. "Even if you have to give up your own life.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.