Quotes About Nurturing

True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.

How I've fed my kids over the years is by doing stand-up comedy in clubs.

No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men.

Real men change diapers!

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.

Basic psychological theory holds that we learn to trust, to feel safe — or not — when we're so young. It happens by the time we're two years old, and it depends on how well our basic needs are met. Whether people fed us, held us, comforted us, whether we were in a place where we felt safe.

Good parenting requires three elements: nurturing, limit setting, and guidance.

There is no redeeming value whatsoever in harshness. Harshness does nothing that loving firmness doesn't do better.

Aside from new babies, new mothers must be the most beautiful creatures on earth.

Even a mama dog will protect her young to the death. What more of a mother?

As to those who have debarred themselves from the Revelation of God, they have indeed failed to understand the significance of a single letter of the Qurn, nor have they obtained the slightest notion of the Faith of Islm, otherwise they would not have turned away from God, Who hath brought them into being, Who hath nurtured them, hath caused them to die and hath proffered life unto them, by clinging to parts of their religion, thinking that they are doing righteous work for the sake of God.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

You never know how your kids are going to turn out. You can raise them with all the best intentions, and then they're own people, and they have their own inner conflicts. You just hope you've given them some good stuff to navigate with.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

Being a busy woman and busy mom, we can tend to neglect ourselves and push our thoughts to the back of our brains to deal with later. By taking care of yourself, you become mentally and physically healthier and show up happier for those around you.

I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.

If I feel my child is being deprived of anything that could affect her progress as a person, then I become extremely neurotic and douse the situation with as much help as humanly possible.

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.

I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I would jump in front of a car and die for this little person I didn't even know yet.

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

I take my role of being an aunt seriously and have attended every important event/milestone in all my nieces' and nephews' lives.