Quotes About Nurturing

Most of our children are not prodigies, or even particularly gifted in any one field, but they all have the potential to shine as individuals in some way if given the right conditions.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

I try to be as calm and as reassuring and a rock to my daughter as I possibly can be. I try to teach her everything that I never knew when I was her age, and I try to give her all the advantages and the things that I didn't have when I was her age.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

My mum was very hands-on - she was a brilliant mother - and I think when I have children I will probably be the same.

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible... I tell them to follow their bliss. The people who follow their bliss in this world tend to be the more happier people.

I have the happiest, most confident babies, and I know it's because they feel that strong love from their parents.

I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.

I will feel like a success if I raise my children to be kind and happy people.

I'm one of those girls that cries at the drop of a hat. I'm oversensitive, if anything. I'm a mom. I'm very earthy, crunchy granola. I compost.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

When you have a child, you have to have a hawk eye. You have to be with the child all the time.

My mom - For me, she has the spirit of an angel. She's a healer without even knowing it... She's beautiful inside and out. She doesn't know she's that.

I'm a teacher, but I'm really a healer.

It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me.

My grandparents had always helped look after me, they were always there.