Quotes About Nurturing

Lotty would be privately dispatched with a batch of failures, which were to be concealed from all eyes in the convenient stomachs of the little Hummels.

its head, she tied on a neat little cap, and as both arms and legs were gone, she hid these deficiencies by folding it in a blanket and devoting her best bed to this chronic invalid. If anyone had known the care lavished on that dolly, I think it would have touched their hearts, even while they laughed. She brought it bits of bouquets, she read to it, took it out to breathe fresh air, hidden under her coat, she sang it lullabies and never went to bed without kissing its dirty face and

mother's Diana-like

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

Je-li v takovéto atmosféÃ…â"¢e lásky možné napodobování zdravých vzor?, pak je dítÄ› ve svém správném elementu. MÄ›lo by se proto pÃ…â"¢ísnÄ› dohlížet na to, aby se v okolí dítÄ›te nedÄ›lo nic, o ?em bychom pak museli dítÄ›ti Ã…â"¢íkat: To nesmíÅ¡ dÄ›lat!

Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.

A good woman of this type is a kind of trampoline. People bounce on her and fly. And if they fall they bounce on her again and rise again. She doesn't seek flight for herself but she spreads herself wide and people use her to climb as high as they can go.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

It is my children who have made all this possible. My children are my wealth; they are my strength.

They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

Si je n'étais pas amant, j'étais plus qu'un ami, plus qu'un frère; j'étais l'arbre auquel, pauvre lierre, elle s'abritait, j'étais le fleuve qui emportait sa barque à mon courant, j'étais le soleil d'où lui venait la lumière; tout ce qui existait d'elle existait par moi, et probablement le jour n'était pas loin où ce qui existait par moi existerait aussi pour moi.

There are those who insist that mothers are born with love for their children and place them before all other things, including their own needs and desires.

What is missing above all is the framework within which the child could experience his feelings and emotions. Instead, he develops something the mother needs, and although this certainly saves his life (by securing the mother's or the father's "love") at the time, it may nevertheless prevent him, throughout his life, from being himself.

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grow out of the experience of love.

When children are born, what they need most from their parents is love, by which I mean affection, attention, care, protection, kindness, and the willingness to communicate.

I knew how much my mother loved me by her love and patience with my child.

Parents and children help each other to grow. In raising their children, parents are also raising themselves. Child rearing gives parents the chance to redo their own childhood and to improve on it.

What makes us love a child isn't something about the child—it's something about us. We don't care for children because we love them; we love them because we care for them.