No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our… — Jessie Bernard Copy Share Image
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Perhaps one reason that many working parents do not agitate for collective reform, such as more governmental or corporate child care, is… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
“While it's certainly true that raising children is a big job and certainly has emotional resonance, it's really hard to intellectually justify… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“One day you’re going to get arrested, and when you do, don’t call me. I’ll tell the police to lock you up… — Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Copy Share Image
Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“If a person’s character makeup determines his future, then child rearing is primarily about helping children to develop character that will take… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued,… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“TV news is like kryptonite to children. The two major shifts in taste for children to adulthood are news and mustard. Kids… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a… — Joely Richardson Copy Share Image
“So, your best defense is knowledge. It really is power, as they say...The more you know, the more easily you will develop… — Elizabeth Pantley Copy Share Image
If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell me that Danielle is having another baby." "Another one?" I loved that Bee's response was similar to mine.… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width… — Phillippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go….Miss Leefolt, she’d narrow up her eyes at… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional… — Pat Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm all about the child-rearing propaganda. Do the kids thing, do the family thing. If anything, it just makes you a better… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
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