Quotes About Nurturing

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Parenting is a learning process.

As a producer, I'm quite nurturing, I like working with inexperienced, unseasoned directors.

For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Being a parent, is without any doubt, one of the most difficult things that you can do in life.

Children can be disciplined with love.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate.

As mothers, women are often the first to know when the food they feed their children is tainted with pollutants or impurities, because they can see it in the tears of their children and hear it in their babies' cries.

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Since I was as young as I can remember, my dolls became my babies. I still have my teddy bear from childhood that I named Mama Bear because, actually, I wanted to be the mama.

People look down on teen moms and young mothers when they are the most gracious and significant women on this Earth. They sacrifice their freedom and their lives to give life.

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have family dinners where we all sat there reading. It wasn't because we didn't like each other. We just liked reading. The person who made my reading list until my late teen years was my mom.

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

There are far too many children in America in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group shelters that fail to provide the stable, nurturing environment all children deserve.

The guru is like a gardener, and the disciples like flowers.

the learned skill of raising

It was infinitely easier to deal with the complications of intracellular life than the uncertainties of child rearing.

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This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden—so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.

It seems to me, therefore, that you should prepare your children to be happy in the way that you are happy. Treat them exactly as you would if your own ideals were generally shared. After all, your ideals, like your children, define you: between them, they are all that you have.

It never seemed to dawn on her to encourage her children to have a good time.