Quotes About Nurturing

My mother breast-fed me with powdered milk. It was my first real do-it-yourself project.

l'amour de soi conduit à souhaiter son propre bien, tandis que l'amour égoïste conduit à ne souhaiter que celui-ci.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

But here was where the question of talent became slippery, for who could say whether Spirit-in-the-Woods had ever pulled incipient talent out of a kid and activated it, or whether the talent had been there all along and would have come out even without this place.

Everyone needs a wife; even wives need wives. Wives tend, they hover. Their ears are twin sensitive instruments, satellites picking up the slightest scrape of dissatisfaction. Wives bring broth, we bring paper clips, we bring ourselves and our pliant, warm bodies. We know just what to say to the men who for some reason have a great deal of trouble taking consistent care of themselves or anyone else.

She taught me everything I know about what it means to be a good wife and mother, nourishing me with all the fruits of the spirit: joy, peace, kindness, faithfulness, and gentleness. What's happened to me since then isn't her fault. She did the best she could.

The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!

But a child who learns things like this at the age of four will be a better person when he or she reaches the age of six, and you cannot underestimate a chance like that.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the most perfect circumstances. If the water was too warm, it killed the yeast; too cool and the yeast was not inspired to grow the bread. Without enough sugar, the yeast would starve, leaving the bread flat and lifeless; if the air was not humid enough, the yeast could not spur the bread to reach its full potential.

Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the most perfect circumstances.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

This is the thing about being a parent," she said. "Do a good job, and your kids feel like they can take on the entire world, and sometimes that involves a world that's not anywhere near you. Do a lousy job, and they cling to your skirt and suck their thumbs—which is not so attractive in an adult person—but you do get to see them. Like all the time. You've got to let go, Annie." "I've

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

It's important that you identify what the best things are in your life. The things that do more than just get you through the day. The things that make you want the next day to come. And once you identify those things, it's critical that you nurture them and keep them strong.

My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.

Joseph—foster father to a fatherless world, living icon of the Father.

Professor Sprout

we must come to realize that once we have kids, individualism is impractical and self-defeating.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee's affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact, they appear to have thrived.