Quotes About Empathy

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

Kindness effects more than severity.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

The best gift is giving from your heart

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

As a father, we need to actively listen.

It is high time that we had a subject called Childrening, as we have one called Parenting!