How To Parent Quotes
Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am today.
Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.
When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.
My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.
Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.
As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.
The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.
I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?
Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?
I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.
It's up to the parents to watch their kids and make sure their kids aren't doing any crazy drugs. I always blame the parents. When their kids are doing something crazy, I blame the parents.
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.
When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.
When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.
Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.
The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.
The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.
My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.
Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.
My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.
I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.
It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.
It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.