If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner.
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.
The joy is still there when I see Sean. He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all his things. But he is my biggest pride.
We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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