312 quotes found
“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.”
“Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.”
“Setting boundaries isn't an alternative to loving your child. It is a means of loving her.”
“Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more than you do her mediocre, stumbling parts.”
“My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.”
“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.”
“Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit.”
“Parenting fucked you up.”
“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.”
“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 fundamentall...”
“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...”
“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...”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 go...”
“If you want your children to grow up to be healthy and independent, you should hold them, hug them, cuddle them, and love them. Give them a secure base and they will explore and then conquer the wo...”
“[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.”
“Pulling at the hem of my emotion was the creeping sense that it might well take until 2036 for this child in my arms to feel a fraction of what I already felt for her.”
“It's easy to love kids who make you feel competent.”
“Treat sins that your children struggle with like basic math. Practice, Practice, and you'll get it.”
