Quotes About Nurturing

Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.

You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.

My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

Let's get you back to the kitchen and put some butter on those wounds.

My father loved people, children and pets.

I want to be a loving mom.

I want to be a mom who listens.

There one is safe. In a museum or in a lap or in a tree. Perhaps under the bedclothes. But the best thing of all is to sit high up in a tree, that is if one isn't still inside one's Mummy's tummy.

I want to have kids some day, but I have to consider the crying, changing clothes, the bottles, the late night feedings . . . and then there's also a baby to take care of.

one must walk a fine line between responding and rescuing. A baby whose parents respond becomes a secure child who's not afraid to venture forth. A baby whose parents continually rescue begins to doubt his own capabilities and never develops the strength and skills he needs to explore his world or to feel comfortable in it.

In any case, when a woman doesn't want to breastfeed, we need to support her and we need to stop heaping on the guilt. We also have to stop using the word commitment only in connection with breastfeeding. Any kind of feeding regimen takes commitment.

some like to imagine a cosmic mother watching through a spray of stars, mouthing 'yes, yes' as we toddle towards the light, biting her lip of we teeter at some ledge. longing to sweep us to her breast, she hopes for the best.

She'd spent the rest of the day at his side, getting

When I was still a piccanin she tutuzela'd me on her back, a back-to-front kangaroo. Snug in the hollow of her back, I felt her humming and singing seep into me." (from "Blood Orange: A Novel" by Troy Blacklaws)

It is also the soothing, medicating and nurturing that are part of betrayal bonding. Both partners are obsessed with whether she is going to accept the promise again. Neither partner has to come to grips with the pain or patterns of their lives.

We are a passionate family that believes in standing up strongly for what is right, even when there is a cost. We live our lives around our Church and our faith, placing special emphasis on maximizing our involvement in our children's lives, and nurturing family-like relationships with our friends.

My class had sprouted lima beans in paper cups the year before. I now placed a bean in each of the holes. I covered them up, pressing the soil down firmly with my fingertips. I opened my thermos and watered them all. And I vowed to myself that those beans would thrive.

Her attitude to the girls became that of an aunt who knew her nieces had heard her discussed unfavorably but could not help showing her interest in them and some of her affection.Indeed she seemedm to acquire something of the thick skin such a woman had to cultivate if her feelings were not to be constantly hurt by inattention to her questions, opinions, and fund of boring anecdotes.