Quotes About Nurturing

Wir sollen es mit den Kindern machen wie Gott mit uns, der uns am glücklichsten macht, wenn er uns in freundlichem Wahne so hintaumeln läßt.

Friendship with children increases their level of self - confidence.

Friendship develops gifts and talents.

It is that flavor exuded by women who have fashioned an earthy and simplified sexual adjustment to their environment, borne their young, achieved an unthinking physical confidence. They are often placidly unkempt, even grubby, taking no interest in the niceties of posture. They have a slow relish for the physical spectrum of food, sun, deep sleep, the needs of children, the caressess of affection. There is a tiny magnificance about them, like the sultry dignity of she-lions.

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)

Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life.

When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.

Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.

Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.