312 quotes found
“What do we say to a guest who forgets her umbrella? Do we run after her and say "What is the matter with you? Every time you come to visit you forget something. If it's not one thing it's another. ...”
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”
“He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for hi...”
“There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of in...”
“I want my girls to see their relationship with me as a place of refuge, a place they can retreat to for honesty, unconditional love, and support. I want to teach them and have them trust me, not fe...”
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
“You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.”
“Society tried to teach me that children are by nature selfish, out-of-control, and demanding, that their goal is power and that they are always trying to see how much they can get away with, that y...”
“My kid, her life. I want for her what she wants for herself.”
“So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.”
“If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.”
“The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child, but the p...”
“we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can suppor...”
“The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.”
“To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, befor...”
“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reac...”
“It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.”
“Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being.”
“If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a busin...”
