Quotes About Nurturing

I want to be there for my daughter - when she falls, to pick her up. When she needs help with homework.

Honestly, self-care is not fluffy - it's something we should take seriously.

It's an honor to have kids. It's a responsibility.

I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.

I have two sensational kids who I have raised with my husband, hoping and working every day to help them become healthy, happy, and decent human beings.

I made a baby blanket for both of my children and brought them home from the hospital in them, and they will always have them.

Hospitals are about healing.

I don't know how to cook. I work a lot. So, for me, then, it's important to find a man who can cook. Who will make the house a home more than I can.

I grew up in a loving household.

I simply love doing household chores and cooking.

I have grown up in a positive household.

My mother was a housewife.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Obviously, having a wife and a daughter is a huge responsibility.

Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

I didn't have a great childhood, and neither did Debbie, my wife, so we both try to give the kids not only the material things we never had but also the hugs and the love.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I had a humble childhood, but it was full of love.

it's easy to like pregnant women—they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs.

I had to know I could love a person unconditionally, that I could make a little creature feel constantly welcome and wanted no matter what. That I could be a different kind of father than my dad was.

What is home? My favorite definition is a safe place, a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable.

Children have two basic needs, writes Erich Fromm in the Art of Loving: they need both milk and honey from their parents. Milk symbolizes the care given to physical needs...Honey symbolizes the sweetness of life, that special quality that makes life sing with enjoyment for all it holds. Gromm says, Most parents are capable of giving milk, but only a minority of giving honey, too. To give honey, one must love honey and have it to give.

Troublesome as females are when they step out of their proper roles as connivers, manipulators, gossips, backstabbers, and bearers and nurturers of the young, slaughtering them is not an acceptable form of chastisement.