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My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.
I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.
If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.
When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave me, such as love and friendship.
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.
So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
In many ways, I don't think journalism is any different from banking. And I don't think that banking is any different from parenting.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~
If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger
My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.
I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I've been on my own, parenting myself.
Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.