Quotes About Family

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Heaven is my father and Earth is my mother and even such a small creature as I finds an intimate place in their midst. Therefore that which extends throughout the universe I regard as my body and that which directs the universe I consider as my nature. All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions.

I have to have dinner with my mother at nine and after that I won't be fit for human society.

In my diary I wrote, "I fear my father's anger, but I fear my mother's love.

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.

When Daddy didn't answer, I knew that something was wrong. Mariah thought back to that seemingly endless drive from Greenwich Village as she had rushed to New Jersey that night.

Grandpapa doesn't want to lose Nelly," Eliza said. "Grandpapa is only aware of the trail of belongings Nelly has lost on this trip and thinks she had better wait before she loses her heart, too," he retorted.

Commissioner Farley has had a major heart attack. He may not make it. He wants to see his grandson now." Bruno was a good actor. He stared straight into the young counselor's eyes. "We've been warned to take particular care of Timmy," Toby said

It had always been like this, even when she was a child. And now, fifty-five years old, happily married for thirty-two years, with one child, beautiful and gifted nineteen-year-old Susan, Rosemary could not be anything but a constant worrier, a living Cassandra. Something is going to go wrong.

the table to wipe her face. An instant later Carter

If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme

Ik had bijna gevraagd of jullie een beetje op Bel willen passen, maar ik weet dat zij heel goed voor zichzelf kan zorgen. - Charlie

Maar als jullie genootschap mij kan helpen mijn titel en mijn troon te houden, weet ik wél dat ikzelf alles op alles zal zetten om mijn neef Fabrizio ervan te weerhouden de plannen van zijn vader uit te voeren. - Lucia

We rarely get the families we deserve, baby girl. That's what chocolate is for.

rarely get the families we deserve, baby girl. That's what chocolate is for.

Post-placement Honoring the role of the former caregiver(s) Some toddlers transition directly from a birth family to their adoptive family, while others transition from interim care to their permanent home. If a relationship has formed between a child's caregiver and the child, regardless of whether that person is a birth relative or not, it is essential to continue to acknowledge the importance of that person in the child's life.

Fortunately, attachment to new parents is not dependent totally on a child either not having or losing strong feelings toward her early caregivers or birth family. On the contrary, a strong attachment to her former caregiver will help her attach to her adoptive parents.

Toddlers have limited capacity to understand the Lifebook as more than a story. However, the seed is planted for later understanding of and receptivity to information about their earliest days before becoming part of their adoptive family. The tone of voice and emotional demeanor of the adult telling the adoption story while showing the Lifebook is extremely important at this age. Respect, empathy, and support for everyone who has been part of the child's life history are important.

Even after moving to her new home, Sharon frequently talked to her foster mom on the telephone. In both of these cases, the parents took care to try to follow routines that were familiar to their children, and to talk with them daily about their former caregivers.

Adoptive parents must begin where the child is developmentally, not chronologically. Healthy dependence must be recreated for the child who is not attached to the adoptive parent, regardless of the child's age. Strategies to foster attachment to the new parents are as important for children who were securely attached and need to transfer their attachment as they are for insecurely or unattached toddlers.

To recreate the attachment cycle, the adoptive parent should initially provide for the child's needs on demand in the same way that the appropriately responsive parent meets the needs of a newborn on demand.

In most, but not all, families, adopted toddlers bonded sooner with siblings who were at least four years older than they were than they did with close-age siblings. It was no surprise that families who took time to include their children in the adoption process, planning, and transition of the new toddler sibling reported a much more satisfactory adjustment.

a toddler's experience of grief is complicated by the way in which he thinks. Left unacknowledged and unattended, grief can block development and attachment to the adoptive family.

The loss of a parent is a young child's greatest fear. To be abandoned, whether through termination of parental rights, voluntary relinquishment, death, or any other means, is a child's worst nightmare come true.