Quotes About Nurturing

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.

La prunelle de mes yeux.» L'expression peine à rendre ce qui lie le parent à son nouveau-né. La prunelle de ses yeux, on pouvait la lui arracher sans qu'il tombe – la moelle de mes os s'approcherait davantage, pour dire que ça parcourt tout ce qu'on est, et qu'il s'agit du lien qui s'établit, avant même qu'on soit capable de reconnaître son enfant parmi les autres.

Lucy went straight to the pups and gave him a pitying look before she pulled the blanket off with her teeth, settling down heavily. It looked to Josh as if she was lying directly on some of the newborns, but Lucy wiggled and they soon were all nursing again. She lowered her head and sighed with a weariness that Josh felt connected her with all the mothers in history.

first, everything was dark. I felt warmth all around me, and I could smell other puppies cuddled up close. I could smell my mother, too. Her scent was safety, and comfort, and milk. When I was hungry, I would squirm toward that smell, and find milk to drink. When I was cold, I would press close to her fur, or burrow under a brother or a sister. And then I'd sleep until I was hungry again. When I opened my eyes after a few days, things began to get more interesting.

supposed to stay in a box with a bunch of baby birds called goslings. I nudged a few of them aside and lay down and at once they were huddled all around me, trying to cuddle right up to my nose. I was worried that if I yawned they might try to climb into my mouth!

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day.

What I do is so important to me. It's like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

Now I'm his dad, I live for [my son]. I have a responsibility. It's a big responsibility.

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.

The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.

When you have kids, it takes the focus off of you. You forget about what clothes you're wearing, or if you went to the gym. It makes you a better person if you do it right.

The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

When he is sick, every man wants his mother.

Hämningar växer inte på träd förstår ni - det behövs tålamod, det behövs koncentration, det behövs en hängiven och självuppoffrande förälder och ett hårt arbetande, uppmärksamt litet barn för att på bara några år skapa en riktigt hämmad och knuten och förstoppad människa.

That is about the strongest bond in the world, the mother and the little boy. There couldn't be anything stronger.

I want to teach him his prayers and his letters and his manners. I want him for my own. Not just because he is motherless, but because I am childless and I want someone to love.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force.

Mon pauvre petit chou, you say, fanning her with a banana leaf. My poor little cabbage.

So said the old man: As a boy I gathered fruit from the trees planted by my forebears. Am I not, then, required to plant the trees that will sustain my grandchildren?

Raising kids isn't carpentry, he said Forget measuring twice and cutting once, You measure over and over everyday