Quotes About Nurturing

Mother–that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

We hope that our incessant need to make things better for them didn't make them less capable human beings, less able to withstand the trials that will come their way because they didn't experience any disruption growing up.

Nurturing others can be very healing and nurturing for you, too—if you're not feeling deprived.

I learned the most important aspect of a mother's love was not the intensity but its reliable consistency.

time is the quintessential mother.

There is nothing like a Puerto Rican grandmother.

I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding.

teaching him, as best she can, the business of living.

she has to get on with the job in front of her now: teaching him, as best she can, the business of living.

I have prepared oatmeal for your breakfast. It is a good, nutritious food and I want you to eat it. Maybe other mornings we will have something you like better." Many are saying, "What do you want for breakfast? You don't want the oatmeal I have prepared; would you like something else?" This sounds very nice and enlightened, but what is really happening? The child is learning that he is the decision maker. The parent only suggests the options.

If authority best describes the parent's relationship to the child, the best description of the activity of the parent to the child is shepherding.

I've spent a lot of time encouraging, corralling, protecting, and sparring with creative people.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

There is nothing more special than a love of a child, and I love the fact I am an auntie.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

I'm not here to - as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.

I take all my grandchildren down to the garden and they spend hours and hours eating peas.

Spending time in the kitchen together with my children, it's huge.

My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.

I don't know, maybe I'm overly paranoid that they're going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.

Family is paramount, I am the baby of the family, I get looked after, everyone spoils me and I couldn't live without them. They are my life, and they keep me grounded. If I get out of line, my mum will tell me off.

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.