“We grow up in a belief system according to which children should always make their parents proud and happy (instead of making… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
“But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed… — Belinda Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their… — M. Conley Copy Share Image
“A child's true independence is the product of a strong, reassuring parental presence, and it is that presence that we take with… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“As a parent you are never, ever dealing just with the words and actions of your children. You are always also dealing… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find… — Bruce Weber Copy Share Image
“Why isn't there a commandment to "honor thy children" or at least one to "not abuse thy children"? The notion that we… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
“The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this… — Sigmund Freud 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
Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines,… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back… — John Wells Copy Share Image
“When a person is so irresponsible and self-centered that they can’t look out for the basic needs of their own family and… — Angie Stanton Copy Share Image
With one or two children at home, I feel that parents concentrate too much on them and hence children lose touch with… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Your creative life can continue to just turn inside out and evolve in ways that you can't possibly imagine, whether or not… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
They say that if you give your children too much, they don't get the joy out of work. They just want the… — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Your way of dealing with your child will have lots of unique aspects, because you and your child are unique human beings,… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I just think that being a parent is hard. Whether biological, adoptive, mom, dad, young, old, black, white, WHATEVER! Being a parent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Anything new is a sort of adventure - as a child, I think I was quite bad at tackling new experiences, like… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child. — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
“It is the child that sees the primordial secret of Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One reason there are so many juvenile delinquents today is that their parents didn't burn their britches behind them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other… — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Take some time to write down what you see your children enjoying, what you see them learning and so on. However,” — Pam Laricchia Copy Share Image
Anyone can have a child and call themselves a parent. a real parent is someone who puts that child above their own… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
“A lot of conflicts arise when parents expect their children to behave like adults. You need to define and learn to differentiate… — Monica McBride Copy Share Image
Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light. — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
