Quotes About Upbringing

An accepting parent is willing to let a child develop his own "program" for life; a less accepting parent feels a need to program the child's life for him.

There is a fundamental reason beyond Mr. Friend's perceived social and educational deficiencies that explains why he became a UAW: His parents taught him the ways of the UAW.

The affluent tend to answer "yes" to three questions we include in our surveys: Were your parents very frugal? Are you frugal? Is your spouse more frugal than you are?

Laura's upbringing made her wonder for a moment whether it was quite respectful of a workman to talk to her of bangs slap in the eye. But she did quite follow him.

Children have no frame of reference with which to understand that those rules are simply choices that his parents have made, and that other families and communities will have different styles of relating and behaving. His focus becomes narrow, he becomes less flexible, and may have trouble as an adult operating outside of the rules set for him by his parents.

If a child grows to adulthood without examining the view of life, self, and the world he or she grew up with, it's likely that quite a bit of this early "programming" will still affect the adult's opinion of self and the way in which he or she sees and interacts with the world. This can sometimes place limitations on how well the person copes with life and what they can accomplish.

In functional families, children are encouraged by parents, and as they become adults, they internalize those supportive voices so that the positive messages are with them for their entire lives. In the same way, those of us who grew up in dysfunctional families internalized the negative, critical voices, which haunt us until we decide we're not going to listen to them any more.

Character isn't built, it's bred.

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

TRAIN up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6).

It indicates very poor breeding," Miss Simpkins informed me primly. "We are not dogs or horses," I insisted hotly. "None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterward.

I'm glad I was raised as a Baptist, because I got my conscience installed early.

We're bringing good little people into the world who have a mom and a dad who care about them and love them. They know right from wrong because their parents teach them which is which, and because their parents live by example. Somewhere, there is a reward for us, Joe. We need to believe that. We won't just be abandoned.

Men are what their mothers made them. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life

P198 Describe John Moore's brother's death: but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled. Unfortunately, I'd stated this opinion during the funeral, and was nearly forced into an asylum as a result.

There were many causes of his unhappiness, but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

A child certainly allows himself to be impressed by the grand talk of his parents," wrote Jung "but do they really imagine he is educated by it? Actually it is the parents' lives that educate the child – what they add by word at best serves only to confuse him.

Every child starts out loving animals, identifying with them. But early on, adults start sending them contradictory messages. They'll give a kid a stuffed animal to hug and love and sleep with. But at the same time, they're serving them animals for dinner every night. It's crazy, if you think about it. But when you're young, you just accept what grown-ups tell you as the truth.

Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

I didn't play practical jokes at home. I had a strict upbringing, which is part of my rebellion. I was raised Catholic and went to parochial school, which is why priests and nuns appear in my movies a lot, and I don't have very much nice to say about them.