Quotes About Nurturing

And perhaps even for learning to walk in worn-out shoes, it is as well to have dry, warm feet when we are children.

We do not serve a child's development by making self-repudiation the price of our love.

The answer to this last is simple: In supporting and nurturing the self-esteem of our children, we support and nurture our own.

Mindful, however, of her own errors and misfortunes, she early sought to impose a tender, but strict control over the infant immortality that was committed to her charge. But the task was beyond her skill.

a subsistence, of the plainest and most ascetic description for herself, and a simple abundance for her child.

My mother is European and expresses her love through food and cuddling. She wasn't the type of mother who would make it to school plays or soccer games, but if you wanted to stay at home sick, she was your girl. Whenever you'd go up to her room to cuddle with her, she'd pull out a Kit Kat or Snickers bar from her night table and look at you with dancing eyes.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Stop worrying about being your child's buddy. You are the only one in the world with the primary responsibility of giving your child what he needs, not what he wants.

All her questions, all the fatigue and nausea and swelling and pain, vanished the moment she held her son.

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunderbolt of understanding and awe for the miracle of it all, and I still feel that way.

I'm like a Mr. Mom. I get up and help out, getting the milk together and changing diapers. I've even learned to mix baby formulas and stuff like that.

Most models are emotionally abandoned. They need me. I'm their mother.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

The modern world is about knowledge and it's our job as mums to help our daughters.

This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

You really get your sense of women, to begin with, from your mom.

It's my favorite role - being a mom.

I'm not self boasting. I'm a really good mom.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

With every kid, there has just been a deepening of my humanity, because there's no more of a feet-on-the-ground moment than having a child.

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

You don't really know what your children are made of until the mommy engine of the family shuts down, and they are forced to step up and become the care-takers.