Quotes About Nurturing

My mother quit her job in advertising in order to raise us and she really allowed and encouraged us to be ourselves.

All my friends with babies or husbands or full time jobs are running ragged looking after everyone and everything around them, but not themselves.

I was very aware as a young mum that I had to be there and not go off the rails. I would go clubbing, then come home and make breakfast for the baby.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.

My mom raised me.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

I was raised to take pride in homemaking, and it's something that I always love to do. I know I share that pride with millions of other women all over the world. It's a good feeling, and it makes me happy.

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

My daily life is mostly spent with my three kids and raising them.

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking.

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.