Quotes About Nurturing

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

You had to let your children venture out in the world. You couldn't always find the Barbie shoe. Children had to know pain, or how would they ever know what to do when they encountered it? Trouble would come, no matter what. The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them—as it would—they'd be able to survive it. Teach your children well.

Remember to show yourself compassion

I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.

I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.

The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am.

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.

Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.

I was almost surprised to realize that I had actually done something right as a parent by insisting on regular family dinners.

To me, self-care isn't really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.

My mom sacrificed everything for my brother and me. She taught me so many things - about life, love, faith, ambition, and family - and she instilled in me the desire to have my own kids one day.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

I have no maternal instincts.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.

parents who build on their kids' strengths find their children growing in responsibility almost daily.

Please, let them be little, 'Cause they're only that way for a while. Give them hope, give them praise, Give them love every day. Let 'em cry, let 'em giggle, Let 'em sleep in the middle, Oh, but let them be little.

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

and, oddly enough, playing with his baby seems to renew his strength, though not so much the strength in his arms as the strength in his soul.

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

Grandmas defy description. They really do. They occupy such a unique place in the life of a child. They can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax, and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realization that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.