Quotes About Parenting

È ora che ti faccia accorciare i capelli» disse una mattina ad Ernesto sua madre. « Cosí non ti voglio piú vedere. Prima di pranzo, passa da Bernardo. Eccoti i soldi». Bernardo era un barbiere che aveva la bottega in faccia alla casa di Ernesto. Da piú di un mese la signora Celestina pregava Ernesto di farsi fare quella piccola operazione. Molto amante dell'ordine, non poteva vedere suo figlio andare in giro come un selvaggio

A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

The main problem with teenagers is that they're just like their parents were at their age.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up.

Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.

A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them

Permissiveness and inconsistency with growing children do them more harm than some physical ailments.

He who can be a good son will be a good father.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners

Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character - if given often enough, early enough, and low enough

Some parents really bring their children up; others let them down

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

There is a particular tone of voice that strikes fear and terror into the hearts of parents everywhere

Danny woke up the next day feeling a little off. Not bad, exactly, not unsettled the way he had been the previous morning on the bus, just . . . off. He went down to breakfast and found his mother snoring into her coffee. Danny's dad was away on a business trip, and Danny's mother did not do mornings well. Toast. Toast seemed like a good idea. He slid some bread into the toaster. "Zzz . . . zz . . .

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The tiny bud the parents nurtured does not seem to have bloomed into the magnificent flower they expected. Parents feel as if they have been cheated or robbed; their family seems irretrievably lost to them.

I have a family and two cats I get up with my kids early in the morning.

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

I hope my girls don't grow up to be models," Maria Fabiola says. But there is something in her voice that implies that this will be difficult to fight-their beauty will pull them inexorably toward modelhood.