Quotes About Nurturing

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.

A man never stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.

The priest should treat those whom he rules as a father treats very young children. We are not disturbed by children's insults or blows or tears; nor do we think much of their laughter and approval.

We know that infant rats who receive more licking and grooming from their mothers are less fearful and more intelligent as adults, have better immune systems, and are more attentive mothers themselves.

Love is not about rescue, I understand now - it's about allowing. In the Ojibway world, love is the process of you leading me back to who I am. You do that by stepping back and allowing the creative, nurturing energy of the universe to work. That's the most courageous thing you can do when you love somebody. Deb showed me that. Both of us knew we'd found communion with one another. We're loyal to the vision of our togetherness.

Similarly, when we as parents get in the habit of doing small things to make our children's lives easier—when we clean up after them, drive them places that they could walk to, fill out applications for our teenagers, pay teenagers' parking tickets, or regularly jump in to solve children's problems with peers, teachers, or coaches—we run the risk of making our children more fragile, entitled, and self-occupied.

And in the man too there is motherhood, it seems to me, physical and mental; his engendering is also a kind of birthing, and it is birthing when he creates out of his innermost fullness.

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

I don't know when I became aware that the Mother Thing was not, or wasn't quite, a female. But it didn't matter; being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

We could give our children the most wonderful blessing if only we would stop passing the buck to them.

Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.

Delayed parenting helps kids, because older parents are generally better equipped to support their kids, both materially and emotionally.

Maybe raising children was just giving them the things you loved most in the world and hoping that they loved them too.

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

Anak-anak bukanlah buku mewarnai. Kau tidak bisa begitu saja mengisi mereka dengan warna-warna kesukaanmu.

She remember her granny telling her, 'Men are like coal boilers, Ellie. If you find a man you reckon to keep, you got to feed his belly every day, make him burn for you, then release some steam purty regular, or you ain't ever gonna get him to work.

Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.

This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.