Quotes About Parenting

You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure you do not dishonor me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.

Gods pretend to be parents,' I said, 'but they are children, clapping their hands and shouting for more.

You have always been the worst of my children,' he said. 'Be sure to not dishonor me.' 'I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.

Zwei Kinder hatte er gehabt, und keins davon hatte er klar erkannt. Aber vielleicht können Eltern ihre Kinder nicht wirklich sehen. Wenn wir hinsehen, sehen wir nur das Spiegelbild unserer eigenen Fehler.

Sons were not punished.

no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

Papa Don't Preach

Wasn't it hard that you did so much for children and loved them so deeply and they seemed so indifferent to you in return?

Babies grow in a helix of hope and fear.

He wants to tear down the sky, he wants to rip every blossom from that tree, he wishes to take a burning branch and drive that pink-clad girl and her nag over a cliff, just to be rid of them, to clear them all out of his way. So many miles, so much road stands between him and his child, and so few hours left.

She wouldn't let them take Hugo. They had to prise him from her. It took her father and a man they'd got from somewhere. Her mother stood by the window until it was all over.

Mother said that no parent in their right mind would display a portrait like that. Esme was not at all contrite. The chair was so uncomfortable, she said, there were two springs digging into my leg. She was funny like that, always so ridiculously oversensitive. She was like that princess in the story about the pea and all the mattresses. Is there a pea, I would say to her when she thrashed about in the bed at night, trying to get comfortable, and she would say, whole pods of them

Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she'd grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her way in the world?

Holding my child, I realised my vulnerability to death: I was frightened of it, for the first time. I knew all too well how fine a membrane separates us from that place, and how easily it can be perforated. —

The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories. I'd been a parent for about ten minutes when I met the man, but he taught me, with a small gesture, one of the most important things about the job: kindness, intuition, touch, and that sometimes you don't even need words.

The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories. I'd been a parent for about ten minutes when I met the man, but he taught me, with a small gesture, one of the most important things about the job: kindness, intuition, touch, and that sometimes you don't even need words.

Children were experiments, and his had failed.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

with disgust. 'You know what mothers are like,' Nosh shrugged. 'Yeah, but your mum doesn't go round showing you up,' I pointed out.

If you are a parent, how do you differentiate offering your children advice and guidance from imposing your dreams upon them?

The point is: no parent can live their child's life for them, but that doesn't keep us from the worry and heartache of seeing you unhappy. Sometimes that can even push us to action, to try and show you the way. Sometimes it's better to be wrong and tactless as a result of loving you too much than to sit idly by and watch you suffer.

Tu sais, rien n'est plus complexe que d'élever un enfant. On passe sa vie entière à donner tout ce que l'on croit être juste, tout en sachant que l'on ne cesse de se tromper.

Vous avez des enfants ? - Non. - Alors attendez d'être mère à votre tour, vous verrez votre enfance sous un autre angle et le regard que vous portez sur votre mère changera du tout au tout. - Je ne vois vraiment pas comment. - Les parents parfaits n'existent pas, les enfants parfaits non plus.