Quotes About Nurturing

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

My songs are like kids. I love them all. I encourage them to grow, to reach their full potential, and then send them out into the world.

Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

Even the most assiduous of parents cannot fully protect their children, even if they lock them in the basement, safely away from drugs, alcohol and internet porn. In that extreme case, the too-cautious, too-caring parent merely substitutes him or herself for the other terrible problems of life. This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare.49 It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

Too much protection devastates the developing soul.

I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog—cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way.

Aun cuando haya pasado nuestra infancia, no por eso nos niega sus mimos una tierna madre: nos faltan sus besos; nuestra frente, marchita demasiado pronto quizá, no descansa en su regazo; su voz no nos aduerme; pero nuestra alma recibe las caricias amorosas de la suya.

You know what kind of a man Lonny Tooker is? The kind of a man that sets broken bird's wings." "Hitler loved dogs and babies," Dave said.

Certainly not. You need to sleep," their mother, Blossomheart, scolded. "And so does Graystripe.

The hardest lesson I've learned as a mother is that you can't control what happens to your kits," she told the younger cat. "All you can do is love them, and guide them, and try to do what you think is right for them when you can. That's what you're doing. You're a good mother.

Tigerkit was bouncing around Lionpaw. "Have I grown?" the kit demanded, stretching himself up to his full height. Dawnkit leaped on her brother, bowling him over. "You must have grown, the amount you eat!

I'll be fine," Cinderpaw assured him. "And Yellowfang'll bring me something. She always does. I'm going to be the fattest cat in the Clan by the time she's finished with me.

Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else. She made talent sound like a damned insult.

I bent over, sick, and leaned my head against the softness of his stomach. He wrapped his arms around me, rocking gently. He said, "We should take you to the ocean, maybe that's what you need to feel better." He sang into my ear, under his breath. Silly songs. "That's the recipe for making love…

What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.

I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop!