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Quotes About Child-rearing

I've never been particularly maternal.
~ Clare Balding
America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.
~ Pamela Druckerman
Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.
~ Gordon Neufeld
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
~ Will Durant
Miller identifies the 'hidden cruelty' in child-rearing as the repetition of 'poisonous pedagogy' inflicted by the parents of the generation before and as providing the soil in which obedience to authoritarianism and fascism take root
~ Adrienne Rich
The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.
~ Adolf Hitler
The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.
~ Pamela Druckerman
I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.
~ Eugene Mirman
Child-rearing is not some special part of life, set aside for some temporary purpose and put aside at a certain age. It is the principal business of life, the search for the condition that is naturally promised for us by the fact of our life. And we must do it by ourselves, one by one.
~ Richard Mitchell
The war is the reason for that. Before, no woman ever rose above the level of secretary-assistant in MI6. We didn't have analytical minds, you see. We were more suited to homemaking and child-rearing. But since war broke out, women's brains have undergone a remarkable change, and we have become capable of work that previously could only be accomplished by the masculine mentality.
~ Ken Follett
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Women are still angry about feeling duped and undervalued, but instead of ignoring their kids and downing cocktails all day, as in Friedan's time, now we have the angry overdrive child-rearing style: motherhood as a competitive sport.
~ Laura Kipnis
Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or even grow into complete abnormalities in the child which will be produced.
~ Alain de Botton
Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.
~ Pam Bondi
My advice to all parents is beat your children moderately and moderately often; and anything that Wm. Heard Kilpatrick & Jhn. Dewey say do, don't do Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Flannery O'Connor
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
~ Tom DeMarco
Sense such humiliation, combined with prohibiting a child's verbal expression, is a constant and universally encountered factor in child-rearing, the influence of this factor in the child's later development is easily overlooked.
~ Alice Miller
It was a mother's prerogative, to be affectionately critical of her child.
~ Rosamond Smith
I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.
~ Christina Applegate
Like so many new moms, I felt anxiety over the impending birth of my daughter. However, most of the anxiety I felt was around the idea of raising a child. I wasn't focused on potential risks to my health or hers that could occur during the actual birth.
~ Christy Turlington
One of the biggest lessons I've learnt is patience. It's critical when raising a child.
~ Rahul Dev
Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Women know The way to rear up children (to be just) They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
So, your best defense is knowledge. It really is power, as they say...The more you know, the more easily you will develop your own philosophies about child rearing. When you have your facts straight, and when you have a parenting plan, you will be able to respond with confidence to those who are well-meaning but offering contrary or incorrect advice.
~ Elizabeth Pantley