Quotes About Nurture

think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection

Your health is the most important commodity that you have. Without it, everything will fall apart - relationships, financial wellbeing, career, school, and so on. It is very important to take good care of yourself.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow. Genius

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

Angels would be unable to suckle their young at Gaea's breast if they left the great towers. And we could not live clinging to the walls.

The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

it her fault that the graveyard has the best dirt? She loves her plants! Just

On the topic of babies: "I know which end you feed.

Grace can thrive only in the heart that is being constantly prepared for the precious seeds of truth. The thorns of sin will grow in any soil; they need no cultivation; but grace must be carefully cultivated. The

Mothers, [fathers, and other caregivers] who are attentive to their children's gestures have children who pick up words a little faster.

This leads to a pattern in which the child cries out and either gets nothing or gets an insufficient or intermittent response. Then the child becomes exhausted and collapses, either from depleted energy or giving up to conserve a sliver of energy (Lowen, 1971). It is often at this point--collapse--that the caregiver eventually takes care of the child. This "teaches" the child that he or she has no effect on the world and that nurturance comes when they are collapsed.

is managed can have an enormous impact on the way a child feels about herself and about the world.

Hush-a-bye baby in the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock, when the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all. Momma will catch you, give you a squeeze, send you back up to play in the trees, when twilight falls and birds seek their nests, come home to the one who loves you the best.

We're very comfortable thinking, good parenting in, good children out.

Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.

Nature has favored our sex in giving us a choice between love and motherhood. I have made mine. My children shall be my gods, and this spot of earth my Eldorado.

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

For some reason I keep getting connected to men who have something to do with plants.

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