Quotes About Parenting

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

I hold my parents in such high esteem for what they do, so that, in and of itself, is a very lucky position to be in.

I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.

Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.

Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.

children in an industrial society are "time trained"—they learn to read the clock, and they learn to distinguish even quite small slices of time, as when their parents tell them, "You've only got three more minutes till bedtime!" These sharply honed temporal skills are often absent in slower-moving agrarian societies that require less precision in daily scheduling than our time-obsessed society.

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

That hindsight thing will bite you in the butt every time. And there's just something about youth that keeps us from realizing how every choice we make matters. What I would give if I could just go back and spend those nights with Beck when he was a little boy at home.

Like she's realized, really realized, she's failed as a mother. I instantly regret being the one to bring the realization to the surface again.

Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.

Larissa grew quiet, her skin burnished with a rosy glow. Through childhood, she had been the easiest of children, clingy and shy, but eager to please Nadia. The former was just now shedding but a difficult age was looming, when you could visibly see the closing of the gates, your child's mind shutting itself off from you growing impenetrable. Just in the last few months, Nadia watched a new, defiant personality that was pushing against the safe borders carefully crafted for her.

philoprogenitive because loving your kids is just the right thing to do.

When the Indians saw us whipping our children, they thought at first that we must hate our children, but then they thought, no, no one can hate his child. They decided it must be a religious rite, to make the child hate this world and long for the next. We're a strange vicious people.

Little children, headache; big children, heartache.

But in essence they had both remained in the era of the Wars of Succession, she with artillery in her head, he with genealogical trees; she who dreamed for us children a rank in an army, it didn't matter which, he who saw us instead married to some grand duchess elector of the empire . . . Despite all this, they were excellent parents, but so distracted that the two of us were left to grow up almost on our own.

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It is never good news when a parent resorts to your full name.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

My father always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

Always sighed deep. "Don't talk to your mama like that son. I … I could call you them same names … but I ain't.

Always gave birth to his children, it was for business reasons, not for love, so he didn't count them to be much to him. They was for work, or sale.