Quotes About Support

Her companionship had saved his reason, and in her own uncomplicated way she had got him through the blackest times, comforting by simply accepting his limitations.

Her family... Love and involvement brought joy, but as well could become a hideously heavy millstone slung about one's neck. And the worst was that she felt useless because there was not a mortal thing she could do to help resolve their problems.

The worst thing that can befall a family is to have its mother in hospital. The entire world becomes disoriented, the home has lost its heartbeat, there is no answer when you call. [Victoria, 'Magic Might Happen']

It's all so sweet. Needing each other and finding each other.

Dad, if you're there, I'm sort of doing this for you. Don't let me be too useless.

He hadn't wanted to be helped the way I wanted to help him, the way that helped me.

A kid shouldn't need a diagnosis to access help.

The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.

Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they're lacking the skills to not be challenging.

Your energy can be devoted far more productively to collaborating with your child on solutions to the problems that are causing challenging episodes than in sticking with strategies that may actually have made things worse and haven't led to durable improvement.

Solving problems together? Yes, indeed. You and your child are going to be allies, not adversaries. Partners, not enemies.

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.

QUESTION: Isn't it the parents' job to make their child behave at school? ANSWER: Helping a child deal more adaptively with frustration is everyone's job. The parents aren't there when the child has challenging episodes at school.

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

I have seen something of this world, she said over the trays, and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

I am more likely to give help than to ask it—Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it—still I should like to know.

Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

One man in a thousand will stick closer than a brother, but the thousandth man will stand by your side, to the gallows foot and after.

THIS IS THE STORY of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the Tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the musk-rat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice, but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting.

There is no one to touch Jane when you're in a tight place.

Sing to your fledglings again

Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of cure.