Quotes About Nurturing

You put as much effort as you can when they're young into trying to teach them to be good people or make them the best they can be, and they're older now, my kids. I'm at that stage where I let them go, and you just hope that all that nurturing you did earlier on sticks, and you launched good people out there.

I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.

Cooking fills the stomach, and music fills the mind.

It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.

My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

Now I know that parenting is also one way to stay young.

A mother provides nourishment for her child at every level, whether she is aware of it or not. Some of this food may be good and some not so good, but everything that she thinks, feels, says, and does affects her offspring as well as her.

All of my gifts really come from a place of healing. I have homemade essential oils with a diffuser, which I've given to all my kids.

I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.

The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

The emergence of a child opens up this well of love that you just never knew you were able to have. And it's empowering.

Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

Love, Miss Halliday, is a delicate plant. It needs tending, nurturing, assiduous fostering. This cannot be done by throwing the breakfast bacon at a husband's head.

I love you like the plant that does not bloom and carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers

Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds.

Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you are stronger, you can begin to think again. But now is the time to feel.

There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one's sense of what is real.

El Dalai Lama compartió un dato del que se enteró hace tiempo: si a los recién nacidos se les sostiene regularmente con afecto, sus cerebros se desarrollan mejor que en aquellos que se desatienden, y que apenas se les toca, por no hablar de sostenerlos.51 Los bebés separados de sus padres muestran timidez e impotencia, y los monos separados de bebés de sus madres crecen estando más tensos y siendo más agresivos.52