Quotes About Caregiving

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.

Feminism insists on women's right to make choices - about whether to marry, whether to have children, whether to combine work and family or to focus on one over the other. It also urges men and women to share the joys and burdens of family life and calls on society to place a higher priority on supporting caregiving work.

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.

No parent should have to choose between their job and caring for their child, and no person should miss valuable moments with their loved ones because of work.

I had first-hand experience watching my father's health decline over the stretch of 13 years.

My father - a Lebanese-origin small businessman - had a stroke in 1997 and couldn't work anymore. I paused my career and made sure he was taken care of by overseeing the sale of his businesses, but after that, I was able to dedicate myself to politics. It's what I had always wanted.

My father was unwell when I was 11, had a stroke at 14 and died when I was 18. My mother going to work at seven in the morning and coming back to look after him and me and my brother left its mark on me.

Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.

Don't allow your baby to sleep longer than 45 minutes to an hour during the day for the first three days.

Back home, being a nanny—or a governess, as we often say—is a recognized profession, regulated by strict laws. A nanny hopeful must train for three years at an accredited nanny college. I was surprised when I came here to find that you need a license to file nails but nothing to look after children.

At a certain age you stop being a child and start raising your parents ...

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

Babies and young children thrive when they feel secure in their parents' care as they experiment with their bodies, relationships, and physical environment. When the child cannot feel safe because the parent is consistently unavailable, unpredictable, or frightening, the basic conditions that promote early mental health are severely undermined.

Bonding through caregiving..I don't think I'd ever realized until then that so much affection, so much heart connect, happens when we take care of someone.

I did not see that there was much more I could do for Jeff. He was now totally in the hands of other people. They would decide what he wore, what he ate, where he slept, what medication, if, any, he received. My fatherly duties had been reduced to the provision of a few small services, none of them basic. As a father, my role had almost disappeared.

I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.

I had gone through a mother having dementia in the last couple of years of her life. She was in a nursing facility in my little hometown area of northern Illinois, so I got to see a lot of other patients there in various stages of the disease. I had a firsthand exposure to it in a pretty big way.

I do think having a mother as a nurse who's a very kind of compass - , she's so compassionate and she really unfortunately would take her work home with her sometimes.

It's hard on Mom, though, a nurse's aid at a nursing home, taking care of old people all day and then coming home to Gramps, who lately has been having trouble remembering our names.

My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

Ten years ago, foster parents typically earned only 80-cents per hour (Time magazine, 10-8-90, p.44). In 2010, the range was $446 to $667 per child per month. For the difficult challenge of fostering a child needing "specialized care" there is an incremental increase of $84 or $169 per month (subsidy determined by the child's social worker).

Its not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.