312 quotes found
“Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.”
“In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of tr...”
“You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether they'll be okay. And the idea that I'll be worried forever about them and what they do...I almost ...”
“I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree....Those of us less incl...”
“In thousands of little ways, we pull and push our children to grow up, hurrying them along instead of inviting them to rest. We could never court each other as adults by resisting dependance...Perh...”
“Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time(adolescense) is, insisting on the same unreasoning obedience as when all he had to do in the way of duty was...”
“The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.”
“Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You'll see. That's the way it was for Bill and m...”
“What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand.”
“My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.”
“Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.”
“It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince”
“Surely, our greatest parental hope is that our children attain a state of righteousness. It is the only sure road to happiness. But to attain such a state requires that they be decent as well as co...”
“When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.”
“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”
“Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning littl...”
“People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know wha...”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“Remember, nothing is ever created or destroyed. Therefore, unresolved emotional pain from childhood does not dissolve by itself. It sits waiting to be declared, and a child is the ultimate vehicle ...”
“A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.”
