Quotes About Nurturing

Since I used to be busy with my work, it was just Gauri who would look after both the children. She has been a marvellous mother.

Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be given the time and the space and the materials to do their work. That's all they need.

I can be maternal with my friends.

I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

I do the laundry, cook all the meals, take care of my kids and I love it.

I want my daughter to grow up with memories of home-cooked meals, just as I did as one of seven children by Moroccan parents.

I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.

I was always meant to be a mom. As soon as I had my kids, it just felt so natural.

Your entire world revolves around your kid, especially when you are a dad to a girl child. Your responsibilities become more.

Everything I do revolves around my children.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

My mother was a role model.

I'm really good at growing roses.

I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.

I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.

To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy.

I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.

Being an aunty is the best - exactly what I wanted from this - someone to have ownership over but no obligation to take care of.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

Parents are teachers as much as caregivers, and our children learn to navigate life's challenges by watching us. Kids can get a road map for how to handle painful emotions.

It's not that an actor needs to be pampered so much as that one needs to provide a nurturing environment that is encouraging.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.