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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".
We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.
The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.
A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.
~My favorite thing about my son is that he comes home from school and the clothes go flying! Like, clothes off, right down to the undies.~
Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
I've met many rich kids over the years. Many are very down to earth and work hard; they come from decent parenting. Others, however, are not.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.
As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.
As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.
Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
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.
I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.
I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them
...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.