Quotes About Nurturing

I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.

Someone had told her once that mothers existed to blunt the existential loneliness of being a person. If that was true then her biggest maternal responsibility was simply companionship. You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten years walking beside them while they figure out how to be a person.

You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten years walking beside them while they figure out how to be a person.

languages. Rather, he gave himself entirely to the raising of Laura, a beautiful little girl who,

But every baby is an anchor for young parents navigating the stormy waters of daily life; every baby is an anchor for those who are looking for their true north, their purpose, their identity. We give our parents hope when they drift from bad times to bad times to worse.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

The most effective medicine here on this earth is unconditional love.

I loved being a dad. It's just so much fun watching these little people you've brought into the world as they develop and grow up.

You know, when you were little and you got hurt or scared, I could make it all better with a hug or treat. But when your children get older, it becomes less and less easy to heal their wounds.

Psychologists agree that when we view disorganized traits in a positive light and when such traits are nurtured as a special gift, children often grow into high-achieving adults.

Babies are designed to cry when they need something and mothers are designed to respond.

THE FRENCH HAVE a saying: 'You can't go faster than the music'. They believe that a child will roll over, rise to his feet, become potty trained and start to talk when he's good and ready. Lovingly encourage and support him – don't try to rush his development or turn his childhood into boot camp. Being a little kid shouldn't be hard work. There's time enough for that later.

Though I'm winging it, I've realized that everyone else is, too. Parenting starts out as a concrete project. You're full of ideas about how to shape your children. But you end up with this jellyfish of a family that you can't control exactly. All you can do is warm the waters and nudge it in the right direction.

It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdily and foursquare, How the floor received the bottoms of shoes or toes.

When we speak of spirit, we mean intentionally building a supportive atmosphere or holding environment for the work.

respond to stressful situations by protecting themselves and their young through nurturing behaviors—the tend part of the model—and forming alliances with others, particularly women—the befriend part. Women bond around helping one another through troubled times. The more they talk about their troubles, the closer they feel. Because emotional bonds serve as a woman's primary

The first and most basic evolutionary point is that the primary targets and beneficiaries of sociality are the offspring. Why? Because mammalian babies are immature at birth and will certainly die without care. Baby turtles, after hatching from their eggs, immediately dig their way up out of the sand, scuttle down to the water, and begin to look for food. No parents are anywhere close by, nor are any needed.

Some people are like that: they are made of goodness, their every look spreads tenderness, and from their hands caresses fall all the year round.

You see, a laurel needs to grow. I can't do much about that. But I can keep the rain off a few musicians heads, can't I?" A sly smile wound it's way onto his face. "So God will tend the laurels and keep them wet. And I will tend the players and keep them dry. And wiser minds than mine will decide when to bring the two together." -Count Threpe

A babe whose feet smell of fresh butter, of bodily smells of pancakes and milky goodness and "where the hair makes a cowlick" smells like caramel, so sweet.