Quotes About Nurturing

Dealing with babies is nothing to be afraid of. Just keep their nails trimmed, and you're good.

With my babies, if I wanted to go pick them up I would just go in the room in the middle of the night, but Nicky is very much on a schedule. This is nap time, this is tummy time, so I'm just kind of like, 'Okay.'

Maybe love was a woman feeding him pancakes. Maybe it was someone sitting across from him sipping orange juice just to please him.

Blythe turned the tables on him. She was genuine. Sweet. Protective. Nurturing. Everything he'd never had and didn't know he needed or wanted. It was impossible not to love her.

He was such a mixture, tough as nails and lethal, but with her, unfailingly a gentleman, tender and sweet, looking out for her so carefully.

You don't ever hear anyone talking about childing, do you?" "There should be a word like childing," says Lauren. "Children give birth to parents. There wouldn't be parents without children. Not only that, children raise parents. My mom and dad all the time tell me how they learn important lessons in life from me. They

Remember that everything you do teaches your baby. Therefore, when you put him to bed by cuddling him on your chest or rocking him for forty minutes, in effect you're instructing him. You're saying, "This is how you get to sleep." Once you go down that road, then you'd better be prepared to cuddle and rock him for a long, long time.

When you rock any type of baby, sway back and forward, not side to side or up and down. Before your baby was born, she sloshed around front to back inside you as you walked, so she's used to, and comforted by, that kind of movement.

Comforting your child is different from spoiling; it gives a child a sense of security

He recites the names of the trees, vines, shrubs, flowers that he's planted here over the years. I count about forty different species. Finally, in the dim light from the patio, he studies a new fern that has just come up. "It's just vibrant and happy and healthy. The way a patient should be.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.

The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.

Les bras d'une mère sont faits de tendresse et un doux sommeil benit l'enfant qui s'y abandonne.

And you will keep me safe and you will keep me close and rain will make the flowers grow.

Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.

the goodness of the mother is written in the gayety of the child;

the goodness of the mother is written on the gaiety of the child.

for it seems that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable.

The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their young.

The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something is some one,-therein lies the whole woman's future.

Mothers' arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.