Quotes About Nurture

As a parent, you are called to carry the loads of your children that are too heavy for them, and you even want to carry the lighter

Mother Teresa is widely quoted as saying, "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

The more you Nurture yourself, the more you'll find you're living from your future self—the best of who you are.

In so many ways, you can't choose what you give to your daughter, you just give her what you have.

Even a dog can make a bunch of puppies, but a real man raises his kids.

only a woman can truly welcome a man back home, wash his feet, and fix his plate.

If people are lucky enough to have family they should cultivate it. -- A Prologue to Love

They couldn't have come into being with minds as blank as newborn infants, because they'd have rapidly starved to death in such a scenario.

Minds don't grow the way weeds do, flourishing under indifferent attention; otherwise all children in orphanages would thrive. For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

There was something about being cared for," she thought. Something magical.

you may never use your children to promote your convictions. The purpose of discipline is not evangelism. The purpose of discipline is to shepherd your children.

please someone else.

The person your child becomes is a product of two things. The first is his life experience. The second is how he interacts with that experience.

Remember, God is not only concerned with the "what" of parenting, he is concerned with the "how.

You must regard parenting as one of your most important tasks while you have children at home. This is your calling. You must raise your children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. You cannot do so without investing yourself in a life of sensitive communication in which you help them understand life and God's world.

The only safe guide is the Bible. It is the revelation of a God who has infinite knowledge and can therefore give you absolute truth. God has given you a revelation that is robust and complete. It presents an accurate and comprehensive picture of children, parents, family life, values, training, nurture, and discipline - all you need to be equipped for the task of parenting.

Instructing a child's heart is not simply transferring data from parent to child. It is impressing the heart with truth. Solomon

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

You have those people speaking really good things in your life and it grows and produces fruit later on. But somebody had to initially plant those good seeds.

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.