Quotes About Upbringing

Mother gave a flick of a glance at the fork in Tori's hand. "Children without manners are a wound in a mother's side.

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

The prophets of every age come from the hands of attentive mothers

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

But I saw a lot as I was growing up. I learned that whenever a person refuses to live according to moral laws, love cannot survive.

Everyone is molded", said his mother. "We choose what to mold our children with. Nothing grows in a vacuum. If you think you're making a free human being just by letting him grow spontaneously, you won't end up with a free human being. You'll have a patchwork boy composed of whatever is prowling about in his culture. He'll be about as far from freedom as you can get.

As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

Before he can DECIDE to do good, his parents must CONDITION him to do good.

Always treat your children with respect. Never ridicule, mock, or laugh at your child's ideas, creations, or ambitions. The trust you desire to have when they are older must be established and maintained when they are young.

Parents cannot impart righteousness to their children, but they can help them develop a firm commitment to righteousness. Parents cannot write the law on the hearts of their children, but they can weave the law and the gospel into their developing consciences.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6). Train up—not beat up. Train up—not discipline up. Train up—not educate up. Train up—not "positive affirmation" up. Training is the most often missed element in child rearing. A child needs more than "obedience training," but without first training him, discipline is insufficient.

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Children raised by the Spiritually Healthy parent often grow up knowing God, loving others, living a life of meaning, and recognizing that this world is not their ultimate home.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

Parents weren't supposed to praise their children, she knew this—it would only invite disaster.

he assumed that her strict upbringing had much to do with her ability to forbear and endure.

When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.