Quotes About Nurturing

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women." —MUHAMMAD ALI

La imaginación es como un músculo que hay que tener bien entrenado y alimentado.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Suddenly it is not she who needs me, but I who need her. Don't ask me to explain, I can't. I can. We are creatures who must give comfort. We ache to give comfort, to heal what hurts. The colic is making me a mother.

Being a mother means knowing the luxuriousness of giving comfort, bringing the slack body up, holding her close; she melts into your form, which is, when all is said and done, still your form.

Deprivation and attachment difficulties signal the baby's brain and nervous system to implement life-protecting strategies. Depending on the severity and the duration of the nurturing disruptions, there is a progressive loss of the ability to attune to and express one's needs. Along with the loss of attunement comes increasing autonomic dysregulation:

Called upon to give her baby what she never received herself, this mother may be conflicted about giving, unconsciously wanting her baby to give her the love and nurturing she never received.

Parents, she thought, learned to survive touching their children less and less.

To a parent, your child wasn't just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once.

as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.

At any given moment—every moment he could arrange, in fact—he was there with Pearl, in the booth at the diner, in the fork of a tree, watching her big eyes drink in everything around them as if she were ferociously thirsty.

even before the nurses had wiped the baby clean, even before they had cut the cord—touched every part of her child, her tiny flaring nostrils and the faint shadows of her eyebrows and the womb-slicked soles of her feet, making certain she was wholly present, learning her by heart.)

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

There are better ways to teach a child compassion.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.

Boy, be for ever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand

My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a happy man. I am bent upon it.

DOMBEY sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.

Mommies are just big little girls.

A little girl, when asked where her home was, replied, "Where Mother is."

Mothers are the vital warmth of sun — and they are the comforting coolness of shade.