Quotes About Nurturing

Looks like I'll be the one babysitting you all. (Jericho) It's okay, sweetie. I make a mean Band-aid. (Delphine)

How did they manage to raise their children in righteousness? The principles become part of their lives, and when it becomes part of their life, it isn't difficult to do.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

It's always been very clear to me that I was going to be a mother and that my purpose in life was to give life.

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, "The soul is healed by being with children." ...

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

Parenting means teaching children to get their own Weet-Bix.