Parenthood Quotes
To receive children’s love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most powerful emotional experiences available.
Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too
But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?
A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!
Children act on the words they hear.May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.May your words inspire and challenge children to fulfill their true potential.
The child's existence turned a plain world to riches. Her life raised up like this, the child giving point and purpose to each day, the care of him transforming her, widening and deepening her.
The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children.
At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.
Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.
I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?
Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls "Knock and Pray". He says parents should invite their kids to unscheduled times to "pray... big".
We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life – growing inside you – and I became mortal.
The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.
Distrust won’t do good to you.But still if you ever do.Doubt you husband, Maybe doubt your wife.But never suspect, your kid’s father, or the mother of your child.
If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will." Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath
Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
It probably takes many years of monastic practice to equal the spiritual growth generated by one sleepless night with a sick child.
Birthday, Birthday, Birthday! Celebrate your day of birth, no matter the circumstances of your birth. Be thankful and joyful for the gift of life on this divine day.
On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.
He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.
It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents.
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.
They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.
The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.
The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.
Conscious parenting is not about being perfect, it's about being aware. Aware of what your kids need from you to reach more of their full potential.
In parenting patience is the greatest virtue.
A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer.
Having kids is not the same as being a parent.
Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.
What is success, after all, but doing what you really want to do?
The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.
If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.
If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath
If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.
