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My father's attitude was that this was but an inevitable phase of my growing up and he affected to take it lightly. But beneath his jocular, boys-together air, he was at a loss, he was frightened. Perhaps he had supposed that my growing up would bring us closer together— whereas, now that he was trying to find out something about me, I was in full flight from him. I did not want him to know me. I did not want anyone to know me. And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitably undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him. And the very harshness of this judgment, which broke my heart, revealed, though I could not have said it then, how much I had loved him, how that love, along with my innocence, was dying.
— James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
She had read enough about teenagers to understand you couldn't confront them directly. You couldn't even agree with them. The best strategy was to feign indifference to whatever wrong direction they were headed in, then plop in little facts, like Alka-Seltzers, round innocuous comments, let those sink in, take slow, antidotal effect . . .
— Melissa Pritchard, Disappearing Ingenue
We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
Jack, I’m just telling you, if it turns out. . .I want you to shoot me.”“Dee—”"I’m not kidding, not exaggerating, just telling you that I do not have it in me to handle that.”“You have a daughter, too. You don’t have the luxury not to handle shit.
— Blake Crouch, Run
Why did you throw sand when I just told you not to?"What child says, "Hmm, why did I? I guess there's no good reason. Thanks for pointing that out. It won't happen again.
— Joanna Faber, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
My job is to make you think what you think is your businessRjS
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?
— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
Learn to take parents the way they are … What they do for you is something you cannot expect from anyone … What they do not (or cannot) do for you is also with a reason, i.e. ‘in your best interests’!
— Sandeep Sahajpal
The day you accept your parents the way they are, God starts opening doors of success for you, one after the other!
— Sandeep Sahajpal
There is perhaps no harder truth for a parent to bear, but it is one that no parent on earth knows better than I do, and it is this: love is not enough. My love for Dylan, though infinite, did not keep Dylan safe, nor did it save the 13 people killed at Columbine High School, or the many others injured and traumatized. I missed the subtle signs of psychological deterioration that, had I noticed, might have made a difference for Dylan and his victims - all the difference in the world.
— Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
It is high time that we had a subject called Childrening, as we have one called Parenting!
— Sandeep Sahajpal
Parents are not worried about young-ones’ failure, but only concerned about their lack of efforts. Youth who understand and address parents’ dilemma are the forerunners in life.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
overprotective parents can easily set limits for their children, but they heavily misunderstand the boundaries their children can have as they grow older to become adults. If overprotective parents could not compromise to give their grown children personal space, they deserve some form of intervention from a professional who could explain to them of what is or not appropriate to interact and deal with their children.
— Saaif Alam
Let us do our best whilst we live for another tomorrow is coming when whilst we are long gone, another group of people shall come to either suffer from our worst or enjoy and build upon our best. Let us run whole heatedly today with all alacrity for another generation shall come for the baton from our hands to either blame us or congratulate us on how we lived the dream and journeyed in life through the good and the bad times; another generation shall come to ponder over our footprints as a good or a bad lesson for them! Let us run with all necessary zeal such that when we hand over the baton, our next generation will have no reason but to soldier on with courage, enthusiasm and absolute commitment to get to the finishing line with a great accomplishment and a noble story worth pondering over and over!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Genetics doesn’t ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You don’t give them your time, and you don’t show them effort
— Kim Holden, So Much More
We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.
— Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.
— Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.
— Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.
— Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
The best predictor of success is a sense of resiliency, grit, capacity to fail and get up. If you're prevented from feeling discomfort of failure, you have no sense of how to handle those things at all.
— Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.
— Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Once a baby is born, the parents have around one and a half decades to build his or her character and fill the mind with vigour and virtues.
— Abhijit Naskar
Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do.
— Sebastian Faulks, On Green Dolphin Street
Somewhere along the line we stopped trying to fix the child that we had expected and started to enjoy the child that was.
— Meg Blomfield, On Angel Wings: a journey with Ohtahara Syndrome
Parents know all about the verses related to how children should behave but not so much about those that remind them about how they should behave.
— Jeff VanVonderen, Families Where Grace Is in Place
Sometimes the best way we can serve God is by honouring and taking care of that which has already been give to us. This, is my case, is my children.
— Cheryl B. Evans, I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child
I cannot make my kids obey. But I can control my responses to their disobedience—that is, I can respect their choices and provide wise consequences for their actions, so they can learn just as much about wisdom from disobeying as from obeying. And I can respond in ways that create an environment in which their poor choices are their problem.
— Jeff VanVonderen, Families Where Grace Is in Place
In other words, children's choices are their responsibility, and result from how they decide to meet their own needs. Once you understand this, you can learn to stop interpreting their choices as statements about you. When your kids act weird in front of the in-laws, it is about their choices, not about your value as a person. Grace-full in-laws will already know that. You need to know that too. Otherwise, you will parent to fix your kids, so that when they are fixed, you are fixed. You will parent to control, not to serve. How things look and what people think will become more important than what is real.
— Jeff VanVonderen, Families Where Grace Is in Place
Your children should not have to act appropriately so that you can feel like a valuable person. It is not their job to validate you or erase past relationship indictments against you with their performance. In a healthy Christian family children are not there for the adults, adults are there to be resources for their children.
— Jeff VanVonderen, Families Where Grace Is in Place
That took the view that every misbehavior, every cruelty perpetuated by one kid on another should be let slide in the name of letting kids be kids? (Let them be kids, really let them, and you will end up with a tribe of bulimic eugenicists with huge amounts of credit card debt.)
— Karl Taro Greenfeld, Triburbia
We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
I just want to hold you close." I gave Timby a squeeze. He relaxed in my embrace. "I'm wild about you, you know that, right?""I know." He smiled up at me."You don't have to be wild about me too. Just try to like me a little more than you do now.
— Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different
You’ll sacrifice for your child in ways you had never imagined. And they’re not exciting and earth shattering ways, either. They’re small, seemingly insignificant gestures that mean the world to them.
— Heather McVea, Hidden Elements
Look, they're wearing light blue gauzy frozen superhero capes because I have told them that Anna is a junior superhero with a black sister and a gay brother- both of whom are off ruling other countries because, y'know, they have jobs. You do your mothering your way. I'll do my mothering mine .
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
If she was liquid, she would drink her; if she was a gas, she would breathe her; if she was a pill, she would down her'; if she was a dress, she would wear her; a plate, she would lick her clean.
— Maggie O'Farrell, This Must Be the Place
My mom is cool and my mom will treat you right.
— Sam Hyde
Maybe being a good parent is about improvisation and spontaneity. Maybe it's about genuinely being with your kid. Sometimes though, it is also about being able to catch sick in yours hands.
— Keith Stuart, A Boy Made of Blocks
But why bother? Why exert all this effort to focus totally on the boring prattlings of a six-year-old?First, your willingness to do so is the best possible concrete evidence of your esteem you can give your child. If you give your child the same esteem you would give a great lecturer, then the child will know him- or herself to be valued and therefore will feel valuable. There is no better and ultimately no other way to teach your children that they are valuable people than by valuing them.Second, the more children feel valuable, the more they will begin to say things of value. They will rise to your expectation of them.Third, the more you listen to your child, the more you will realize that in amongst the pauses, the stutterings, the seemingly innocent chatter, your child does indeed have valuable things to say. The dictum that great wisdom comes from "the mouths of babes" is recognized as an absolute fact by anyone who truly listens to children. Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be, the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.Fourth, the more you know about your child, the more you will be able to teach. Know little about your children, and usually you will be teaching things that either they are not ready to learn or they already know and perhaps understand better than you.Finally, the more children know that you value them, that you consider them extraordinary people, the more willing they will be to listen to you and afford you the same esteem. And the more appropriate your teaching, based on your knowledge of them, the more eager your children will be to learn from you. And the more they learn, the more extraordinary they will become. If the reader senses the cyclical character of this process, he or she is quite correct and is appreciating the truth of the reciprocity of love. Instead of a vicious downward cycle, it is a creative upward cycle of evolution and growth. Value creates value. Love begets love. Parents and child together spin forward faster and faster in the pas de deux of love.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
He never cried, not even when his alarm went off. Swaddled in his Moses basket, wires trailing out the bottom, his monitor flashing green, green, green, his entire four-pound body motionless except his eyelids, it seemed he understood everything I was working so hard to understand: his mother's love, his brother's ceasless crying: he was alreday forgiving me my shortcomings as a father; he was a distillation of a dozen generations, all stripped into a single flame and stowed still-burning inside the this slip of his ribs. I'd hold him to the window and he's stare out into the night, blue tributaries of veins pulsing his neck, his big eyelids slipping down now and then, and it would feel as if tethers were falling away, and the two of us were gently rising, through the glass, through the trees, through the interweaving layers of atmosphere, into whatever was beyond the sky.
— Anthony Doerr, Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
I'm not important, having a child is not an amazing feat, and my child, while extraordinarily important to and beloved by her parents, is not particularly special in the scheme of things.
— Emily Flake, Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting
Good tennis players are those who beat other tennis players, and a good shot during play is one the opponent can't return. But that's not a truth about life or excellence -- it's a truth about tennis. We've created an artificial structure in which one person can't succeed without doing so at someone else's expense, and then we accuse anyone who prefers other kinds of activities of being naive because "there can be only one best -- you're it or you're not," as the teacher who delivered that much-admired you're-not-special commencement speech declared. You see the sleight of hand here? The question isn't whether everyone playing a competitive game can win or whether every student can be above average. Of course they can't. The question that we're discouraged from asking is why our games are competitive -- or our students are compulsively ranked against one another -- in the first place.
— Alfie Kohn, The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids, Helicopter Parents, and Other Phony Crises
George watched this exchange with disappointment. "Performance parenting" was how Tina used to describe it. Seeking to charm listeners in public with one's patience and good humor, using one's child as a foil. Had George not been there, Emily would have told Nicholas to be quiet or no ice cream and that would have been the end of it.
— Suzanne Berne, The Dogs of Littlefield
But kids don't stay where they're supposed to. You turn around and find her not in the bedroom but hiding in a closet; you turn around and see she's not three but thirteen. Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
It is very important to keep the communication lines flowing so that you develop mutual admiration and respect.
— Kristen J. Duca
If I never point out the sin and struggle in the hearts of my children, and merely direct their behavior to please me, then when will they know they need a Savior?
— Kara Tippetts, Big Love: the practice of loving beyond your limits
I longed to not withhold love when it was inconvenient to give it. Those faces [of her children] helped motivate me to want to know Jesus well, and to live near Him and listen to His Spirit as I walked in faith with my family.
— Kara Tippetts, Big Love: the practice of loving beyond your limits
A simple act of kindness goes a long way in your relationship with your caregiver
— Kristen J. Duca, Ultimate Nanny: How to Find, Interview, and Manage the Most Important Person You Will Ever Hire -- Your Child's Nanny
I don't think it really matters whether parents are strict or lenient, as long as they're consistent. Kids can live with more or less any set of rules so long as they know what they are. It's arbitrary tyranny that gets them mixed up.
— Ken Follett
When we raise our children to Shine, the future becomes brighter!
— Brigette Foresman
If you work together as a team, the arrangement should be positive and beneficial to all involved.
— Kristen J. Duca, Ultimate Nanny: How to Find, Interview, and Manage the Most Important Person You Will Ever Hire -- Your Child's Nanny
It was love without reason, love for something futureless, love that appeared to exist only to be itself, imperious and all demanding, the kind that would cause him to make a fool of himself in an instant.
— Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children.
— Jason E. Royle, Jesus vs. Santa: Christmas Misunderstood
The gift of faith given to your children will last longer than any monetary gift.
— Eve M. Harrell, Confessions of a Helicopter Mom
In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, ‘everybody wants to cut a movie’.
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
You have to talk to your children about things, a lot of our parents don’t do that. You have to explain things to children as to why certain things happen. I think that a good way of improving comprehension is to read the newspaper with your child. A lot of times certain sensational things happen and children want to find out why it happened. And sometimes you would hear them talking to each other passing on erroneous information. Daynette Gardiner, the best School Psychologist in The Bahamas
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes for possible future problems. They not only entertain and give us a resource of proven solutions, but they also help shape and mold our character. Therefore, when we don’t take our time to communicate with our kids, then we rob them of critical life lessons that we and our forefathers learn the hard way - lessons that they would needlessly have to learn through trial and error themselves.
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Looking with his eyes? Seriously? What else would he look around with?”Trish nonchalantly uses her middle finger to scratch her temple. “Toddlers learn by making connections between the body part and the action.”Vince blinks. “Oh, so talking to a kid like that’s normal?” “Someday I hope to have a conversation where I don’t sound like a character from Star Wars.”“I can see how you’d look forward to that.
— Jess Molly Brown, Moms on Missions
Historians have shown that "parents in the Middle Ages worried about their kids no less than we worry about ours today," and by the nineteenth century there is evidence of bars being placed on windows to protect toddlers from falling out as well as "leading strings so that young children wouldn't wander off during walks.
— Alfie Kohn, The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids, Helicopter Parents, and Other Phony Crises
People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?
— Jan Ellison, A Small Indiscretion
Learning to love unconditionally sometimes means that we must let go to allow God to guide the situation and love through us, especially when we don't know what to do, even if we don't like the consequence.
— Eve M. Harrell, Confessions of a Helicopter Mom
We have a Creator, a Father who is hands-on and loves us unconditionally!
— Eve M. Harrell, Confessions of a Helicopter Mom
There is hope in the challenge.
— Eve M. Harrell, Confessions of a Helicopter Mom
Letting go is hard for me. I have spent too many anxious moments and sleepless nights in worry over what would happen if I let go. Much like being part of a search-and-rescue effort, I would find myself always searching for the unexpected spins in life while preparing to rescue the outcome.
— Eve M. Harrell, Confessions of a Helicopter Mom
When we learn to loosen our grip and leave our own beaten path, accepting his perfect plan, we give God the opportunity to be our navigator as he reveals the beauty of his creation.
— Eve M. Harrell, Confessions of a Helicopter Mom
Our Heavenly Father has created a blessing just for you every day.
— Eve M. Harrell, Confessions of a Helicopter Mom
Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2
Then we talked a lot about our parents and how we didn't want to become them, but we had no other role models--or "maps," Alex kept saying. "My father is a terrible map, mostly because he doesn't ever lead me anywhere." And I thought about my parents being maps that led to places I didn't want to go-- and it made a shocking amount of sense, using the word maps to describe parents. If almost made you feel like you could fold Mom and Dad up and lock them away in the glove compartment of your car and just joyride for the rest of your life maybe.
— Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing
...having a child is like casting off your own childhood forever. It's as if it's only then that you really grasp what it means to be a man. You're scared too that all your weaknesses will be laid bare, because fatherhood demands more than you can give.... I always felt I had to earn your love, because I loved you so, so much.
— Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE. Parents give up so much: time, sleep, freedom, money, intimacy... pretty much everything but complaining how much they sacrifice.
— Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Vol. 5
Don't be sad that I'm autistic. Love me for who I am. All of me. Some things are difficult for me but I'm okay as I am.
— TinaJ. Richardson
There is no better example for our children,then the one we set before them every day
— Davin Whitehurst
You are what you eat.
— Nancy Ripton, Baby Self-Feeding: Solutions for Introducing Purees and Solids to Create Lifelong, Healthy Eating Habits
Oh, go ahead and giggle," Lady Danbury sighed. "I've found that the only way to avoid parental frustration is to view him as a source of amusement.
— Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis
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— Linda
On the last day of her visit I drove your grandmother to the airport. Your mother was her only child, as you are my only child, and having watched you grow I know that nothing could possibly be more precious to her. She said to me, "You take care of my daughter."When she got out of the car my world had shifted. I felt that I had crossed some threshold out of the foyer of my life and into the living room. Everything that was the past seemed to be another life. There was before you and then there was after and in this after you were the god I'd never had. I submitted before your needs and I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I would be the first to admit that my maternal instincts are not well developed--though in defense I must add that the raising of Ramses would have discouraged any woman.
— Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool
Some battles take more than one ninja to win.
— Anna M. Aquino
If you are a worrywart you can't be a ninja. You can't rise up and fight when the weight of the world is pressing you down. Your family needs you to be sane and not bogged down in fear.
— Anna M. Aquino
My rugrats give me gifts that say "#1 Mom" on them and I'm like, bwhahahahaha, joke's on you, I'm more like the #1,297,279 Mom. But they truly think I'm the best mom on earth. And that's all that matters.
— Karen Alpert, I Want My Epidural Back: Adventures in Mediocre Parenting
By exempting your child from all chores, as many affluent American families now do, you are sending the message, "Your time is too valuable to be spent on menial tasks," which easily morphs into the unintended message "You are too important to do menial tasks." And that unintended message puffs up the bloated self-esteem that now characterizes many American kids.
— Leonard Sax, The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
My parents were two-faced. To me, they showed no mercy. They preached from theBook of Fallen Children - Commandment 1: The Child Is Always Ungrateful. At eighteen, the free ride would stop, and I'd be dumped into the mess of the world. But in their private moments, they were soft, cowed by love. They critiqued their own parenting skills and thought of all the ways the could help their kids get ahead.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Turn off the device and take your child for a walk through the woods or on a hike up a mountain. Go on a camping trip. Late at night, when it's absolutely dark, take your child's hand and ask her to look up at the stars. Talk with her about the vastness of space and the tininess of our planet in the universe. That's reality. That's perspective.
— Leonard Sax, The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.
— Desmond Tutu, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World
Ninja faith stands. It is not shaken when things seem contrary to what one expects. Ninja faith chooses to believe the truth.
— Anna M. Aquino
Ninja Mom's can't be all their called to be, if their so stressed out about how their going to pay their Mastercard bill
— Anna M. Aquino
Ninja mom's understand that life is a balancing act, and in order to keep the balance they have to learn to enjoy the moment!
— Anna M. Aquino
Ninja Mom's know that God has never left them!
— Anna M. Aquino
To be a ninja Mom you have to be cool with yourself.
— Anna M. Aquino
Ninja mom's understand that training time is never wasted time.
— Anna M. Aquino
Ninja Mom's are graced to finish the raise set before them!
— Anna M. Aquino
Ninja Mom's have to learn that when they mess up, they get right back up again.
— Anna M. Aquino
You are a victorious ninja because God created you that way!
— Anna M. Aquino
I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Ninja's understand that training time is never wasted time.
— Anna M. Aquino
She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told me. . . .Beautiful people are often forgiven for many things--and maybe she's gotten through life that way, but I don't forgive her for anything--and I don't even know what awful things she's done other than showing a lack of parental fitness.
— Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
There is something about being loved and protected by a parent (or guardian) knowing that I can be loved for who I am, not what I can do, or might one day become. Unfortunately it’s not usually like this in every single situation. From time to time, my parents made mistakes during my childhood. Possibly I was the mistake, or unwanted. But I don’t know. I had every material thing that I could have ever wanted, but there was still something missing, as if I felt distanced from my parents, or misunderstood, in the ways that they treated me. At times, I had felt completely loved and accepted by my parents, but for one reason or another, they were unable to care for me, provide for me, in some ways that would have been very important. Sometimes I feel like I am trying to make up for the experiences in life that were absent when I was a child.
— Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
I don't want my kids to be like me. I want them to be better than me.
— Katherine Center, The Lost Husband
Parents need to be lucky to be good in parenting
—  children have to be lucky to have great parents!
This is me telling you, you are amazing and beautiful. You are doing so much right! The children are watching so show them. Show them what it looks like to feel your own worth and celebrate your skills.
— Tsara Shelton, Spinning In Circles And Learning From Myself: A Collection of Stories that Slowly Grow Up
On a lighter but serious side I believe that homework was meant for parents to take a keen interest in the studies of children rather than leave it completely for the teacher. This way the parent child communication also developed. However with the passage of time the world become more mechanical and commercial. Quality time suffixed for quantity time and homework became a means of earning for many an educated unemployed teachers. How sad we sure have progressed but yet in many ways have lost our basic values, ethics and morality. It’s time to wake up and DO OUR HOMEWORK.
— Amit Abraham
Watch it,' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do.
— John Corey Whaley
Love and poor parenting are acceptable topics for any formal meal I make.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
I know he's a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.
— Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
It’s so important for husbands and wives to be united when making parenting decisions. If either parent doesn’t feel good about something, then permission should not be granted. If either feels uncomfortable about a movie, a television show, a video game, a party, a dress, a swimsuit, or an Internet activity, have the courage to support each other and say no.
— Larry R. Lawrence
The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job
— Anders Ericsson
Try to imagine what the rising generation could become if these five righteous patterns were practiced consistently in every home. Our young people could be like Helaman’s army: invincible (see Alma 57:25--26).
— Larry R. Lawrence
You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.
— Martha N. Beck
They decided to allow their baby to be born. What they did not realize is that they themselves were the ones who would be 'born,' infants in a new world where magic is commonplace, Harvard professors are the slow learners, and retarded babies are the master teachers.
— Martha N. Beck
...he is constantly reminding me that real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.
— Martha N. Beck
It comes from looking at the heart of things, from stopping to smell not only the roses but the bushes as well. It is a quality of attention to ordinary life that is so loving and intimate it is almost worship.
— Martha N. Beck
My real feeling, the one I couldn't articulate yet, was that my entire life hinged on knowing that there were people who would continue to love me unconditionally, even if I were damaged, even if I were sick. Such love was the only thing that had sustained me during the turmoil of the past months. If I eliminated my child because of his disability, if I put him out of my life, I would be violating the only thing that was keeping me alive.
— Martha N. Beck
It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.
— Martha N. Beck
It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.
— Martha N. Beck
Brothers and sisters, if your spouse doesn’t feel good about something, show respect for those feelings. When you take the easy way out by saying and doing nothing, you may be enabling destructive behavior.
— Larry R. Lawrence
I never thought the brightest smile would come from a mouth without teeth.
— Iván Zapién
The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.
— Jim Bouton, Ball Four
In order to break your child’s negative cycle, you must first break your own cycle of negative perception. You must take on a strengths-based perspective. Look for the good, which in some cases may require you to get creative. Do this even when it’s hard. This sends a powerful message to children even when they are behaving poorly. You are sending the message that you believe in them, you see that there is more to them than their bad behavior, and you are painting a future picture of what they can become.
— Daniel Bates, When Parenting Backfires: Twelve Thinking Errors that Undermine Parents Effectiveness
By the time most people pick up a parenting book, it is far too late. Most of the things that matter were decided long ago—who you are, whom you married, what kind of life you lead. If you are smart, hardworking, well educated, well paid, and married to someone equally fortunate, then your children are more likely to succeed. (Nor does it hurt, in all likelihood, to be honest, thoughtful, loving, and curious about the world.) But it isn’t so much a matter of what you do as a parent; it’s who you are.
— Steven D. Levitt
Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren't a perfect parent.
— Colleen Ferrary Bader
He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?
— Frank Herbert, Dune
I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.
— A.D. Aliwat, Alpha
Mature, healthy people need other people; they don't isolate themselves...Needing love isn't being immature. Rather, it gives us the energy we need to go out and slay our dragons.
— Henry Cloud, Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives
For your sake, jewel,I am glad at soul I have no other child;For thy escape would teach me tyranny,To hang clogs on them.
— William Shakespeare, Othello
Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.
— H.W. Brands
Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.
— Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bush's mother knew enough to be in position with her children were ready to talk. She waited up not just to ensure safety but to make the most of the moment of excited emotions. The next morning, they would congeal into polite, one-word answers.
— H.W. Brands
Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace.
— Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.
— Dan Alatorre
Setting boundaries isn't an alternative to loving your child. It is a means of loving her.
— Henry Cloud, Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives
Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more than you do her mediocre, stumbling parts.
— Henry Cloud, Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives
My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance
It is not natural to challenge the existing beliefs breaking patterns, and yet once you manage, you create a space for the new patterns to form, the ones that are filled with Love, Acceptance, Knowledge, and you give yourself & your kids a chance to Spiritually Grow.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents
A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent.
— Gary Edward Gedall
Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.
— Gary Chapman, Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World
I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.
— Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit.
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
At least grandmas don't look for angles like other people. Jo
— Facts of Life
We may not have had the same experiences as other parents, but I’m okay with that now.
— Stacy A King
Parenting fucked you up.
— Abigail Barnette
I had come to realize that you must do what you must for your children, even it if called for the sacrifice of your very soul.
— Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe
True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Adolescents need tremendous support as they go about the task of figuring out their identities, their future selves. Too often what they get is intrusion. Intrusion and support are two fundamentally different processes: support is about the needs of the child, intrusion is about the needs of the parent.
— Madelibe Levine
When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Fond mother, you that will never correct a child, hear the charge, and let it thrill through your heart, exciting emotions of horror, you are a hater of your child; your foolish love is infanticide; your cruel embraces are hugging your child to death. In not correcting him, you are committing sin of the heaviest kind, and your own wickedness, in not correcting him, will at last punish yourself.
— John Angell James, The Family Monitor, Or, a Help to Domestic Happiness
Ah, cruel parents indeed, who neglect the religious education of their children; more cruel in some respects than Herod; he slew the bodies of children, these murder souls; he murdered the children of others, these murder their own; he employed the agency of his servants, these do the work of slaughter themselves.
— John Angell James, The Family Monitor, Or, a Help to Domestic Happiness
soon he’ll reach for her because she’s beautiful, and she’s his wife. If she cringes away from him because you’ve convinced her he isn’t good enough for her, how will that make him feel? If she submits to him out of obligation, how will that make her feel?What if she approaches him and later is ashamed of wanting her own husband because he isn’t good enough for her? It’ll be hard for a marriage to last under those conditions. This isn’t what you want for Susan. Forgive him. Accept him. You’ll be doing your daughter a favor.
— Elaine Cantrell, The Captain and the Cheerleader
Do not give up when touching the Door of Awareness, you meet its Mindfulness Magic, but let it open wide giving your family a possibility to Create Reality of Your Dreams.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents
Children are mirrors; they will always show you exactly what is going on inside of you. Each phase of their growth is an opportunity to heal your own pain, to go deeper inside yourself and become more truly human
— Vimala McClure, The Tao of Motherhood
Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides.
— Jamie Raser, Raising Children You Can Live With: A Guide for Frustrated Parents
the balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option.
— Peter Hitchens, The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.
— Eloisa James
The progress of a struggling teen has less to do with the application of specific parenting techniques than with the parents’ own patient, persistent efforts to construct relationships with their son or daughter.
— Marian Sandmaier,  “More Than Love,” The Family Therapy Networker, May/June 1996
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults
—  and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing against, in the poet Richard Wilbur's phrase, 'loving things for reasons'. You find beauty and hope in the existence, rather than the achievements, of such a child. Most parenthood entails some struggle to change, educate and improve one's children; people with multiple severe disabilities may not become anything else, and there is a compelling purity in parental engagement not with what might or should or will be, but with, simply, what is.
— Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Laurie herself was more focused on the years when her kids were little, when she felt so necessary and purposeful, a battery all charged up with love. Every day she used it up and every night it got miraculously replenished. Nothing had ever been as good as that.
— Tom Perrotta
As women, we'd be exponentially lighter if we'd sort through some of our emotional clutter... We need to dispose of the crud that we no longer need. Excerpt from essay #3 "What's in my Purse?
— Dianne Bright, Mommy's Hiding in the Treehouse--- With a Glass of Merlot
The foundation for security and well being of a family is often built from a parent going extra miles to achieve it, doing mundane tasks to ensure it, standing up to injustice to protect it, and having the heart to listen and then express through embrace and action to each member of that sacred ohana how much they are deeply valued, unconditionally. And all the while, from birth, encouraging the other members to do the same. And often, from that foundation you have a home, well founded.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
You and Dad are really the wrecking ball of all of our teenage runaway fantasies. Why couldn't you jerks go and be crack addicts or religious fanatics so we could have excuses to live on the wide open road? - email from Lily
— Candace Allan, Text Me, Love Mom: Two Girls, Two Boys, One Empty Nest
Remember that every child and every parent has a completely unique and special rela- tionship. That child knows his dad and loves his dad. Our job is to watch that communication, to nurture it, and to support the parents in their heart-to-heart relationships with their children
— Vimala McClure, The Tao of Motherhood
In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That, and the concept of "Me time".
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
You cannot stop loving your child because you know that he has committed a wrong action. But you certainly stop loving yourself for loving him. ~ Rudransh Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie. ~ Mrigank Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
As children become increasingly less connected to adults, they rely more and more on each other; the whole natural order of things change. In the natural order of all mammalian cultures, animals or humans, the young stay under the wings of adults until they themselves reach adulthood. Immature creatures were never meant to bring one another to maturity. They were never meant to look to one another for primary nurturing, modelling, cue giving or mentoring. They are not equipped to give one another a sense of direction or values. As a result of today`s shift to this peer orientation, we are seeing the increasing immaturity, alienation, violence and precocious sexualization of North American Youth. The disruption of family life, rapid economic and social changes to human culture and relationships, and the erosion of stable communities are at the core of this shift.
— Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments. ~ Ananya Mehta
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
Considerable social science research has found that constant praise of children can backfire, because it so often consists of telling children how smart they are, not of praising children for the things they actually do. As a result, many children become protective of their image of being smart and are reluctant to take chances that might actually damage that image.
— Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
My child, may you live happily forever. May you experience great success and happiness in life! But you will never be able to experience bliss. For, the one who sins cannot attain bliss, he might get everything in his life but not bliss ~ Gayatri Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
I am not in the entertainment business. I don't give a damn if it was spectacular or not. I want cause and effect.
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan