Quotes About Nurturing

I'm very active in making sure my children are well-adjusted and balanced.

I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all that.

When you hold a baby in your arms, you don't want to put it in a basket right away. You want to keep the baby close.

No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

I was overwhelmed with the privilege it is to parent another human being, the luxury of love, the decadence of caring.

Du hast Hunger zu lernen Hunger zu wachsen Hunger zu wissen Hunger zu fliegen... Vielleicht bin ich heute die Brust die jene Milch gibt die deinen Hunger stillt... Es scheint mir wunderbar, daß du nun nach dieser Brust verlangst. Aber vergiß eins nicht: Es ist nicht die Brust, die nährt, es ist die Milch!

El deseo de ser padres responde a muchas cosas, pero especialmente y más que a ninguna otra, responde a nuestro deseo de dar amor. Tenemos

Giving birth is definitely a heroic deed, in that it is the giving over of oneself to the life of another.

And so, it seems to me, there is a critical problem indicated here, which parents and families have to face squarely: that, namely, of insuring that the signals which they are imprinting on their young are such as will attune them to, and not alienate them from, the world in which they are going to have to live; unless, of course, one is dead set on bequeathing to one's heirs one's own paranoia. More

Children do not need teaching as much as they need love and understanding.

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

Odat Kochamma is the tonic Parambil needs. The old lady is ceaseless in her toil. Within a week, Big Ammachi comes to rely on being fussed at, told to sit down and rest, or made to laugh so hard she has to pee.

The romance of your child's childhood may be the last romance you can give up.

I guess I'm looking for a woman like my mother, and on our first date she'd put her breast in my mouth.

Give information. What we like about giving information is that, in a sense, you're giving the child a gift he can use forever. For the rest of his life he'll need to know that "milk turns sour when it's not refrigerated

It's a bittersweet road we parents travel. We start with total commitment to a small, helpless human being. Over the years we worry, plan, comfort, and try to understand. We give our love, our labor, our knowledge, and our experience—so that one day he or she will have the inner strength and confidence to leave

The whole world will tell them what's wrong with them—loud and often. Our job is to let our children know what's right about them.

treating our children, not as they are, but as we hoped they would become.

By being kind to ourselves, we teach our children to be kind to themselves.

4. YOU CAN GIVE THE CHILD HIS WISHES IN FANTASY. "I wish I could make the banana ripe for you right now!

You breathe upon us now through solid assertions of yourself: teaspoons, goblets, seas of carpet, a forest of old plants to be watered an old man in an adjoining room to be touched and fed. And all this universe dares us to lay a finger anywhere, save exactly as you would wish it done.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

My mother used to pat me instead of slapping me whenever I made a mistake.