Parenting Quotes
There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society.
Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.
The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.
Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.
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?
For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.
We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)
A woman with a strong sense of personal power, is self confident enough to accurately identify her strengths as well as her blind spots, which she is continually working to improve.
A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.
It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly supervised and repressed if the desired result is to ensue.
We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.
Whatever I fed to his mind, thinking it was nutrition was, in fact, poison. No matter how much a person likes or craves sugar, he should not be raised on the diet of only sugar ~ Rudransh Kashyap
Think or don't think, but don't think that you are thinking when you are postulating.
But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.
This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.
Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.
There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!
We have been redeemed from darkness to the light. So we must live as people of light!
Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.
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.
To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.
The innocence of a child is an astounding quality which if not withered away as they grow can spread love and happiness everywhere
Trust me." The words are a prayer, not a warranty. I understand that now.
Your child’s sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.
If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.
Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.
A society needs to know when to forgive, but it also needs to know when to punish.
You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.
With emotions ranging from fear, grief and anger to happiness and relief, the process of bringing home a child who needs in-home care can be complicated
For me, adoption was grief in reverse.
By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.
Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.
Every crossroad in life has four options – quit, adapt, proceed, or accept, but quitting is a dead-end.
It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.
Rock-a-bye Baby In the tree topWhen the wind blows The cradle will rock.When the bough breaksThe cradle will fallAnd Mama will catch you Cradle and all!
