Quotes About Nurturing

Cirocco protested that she could walk, but Titanide ideas of medicine included much cuddling, body warmth, and songs of reassurance.

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.

There's not a place in our lives that has more power to shape us, to build us up, or to destroy us than home.

Emilie Buchwald quotes Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents

My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around.

She worshiped her children. They were so young that she could hide the disorders of her life from their eyes, and could win their love.

Because I have a lot of faith in you, I suddenly feel I out to tell you something. I learned it raising Yuichi. There were many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

What I've realized is that life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

the giver of comfort, not the recipient.

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.