“It almost seems un-American, at times, to have kids who are slow to warm up. Other people tell us to push them—to… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
“Ty grabbed my phone and threatened to tell Otter that I liked being spanked during sex. This proceeded to lead up on… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. .… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange -… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Some fear that if parents startlistening to their own wants and needs they will neglect their children. It is our belief that… — Wendy Coppedge Sanford Copy Share Image
“Our staunch ideals of how we will raise our children get significantly reshaped by those very kids once they’re here in the… — Andrea J. Buchanan Copy Share Image
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
“After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You don't hit a child when you want him to stop hitting. You don't yell at a children to get them to… — Jeannette Galambos Stone Copy Share Image
To keep children healty, it's important to keep them active. Of course you can control what goes into their mouths, but it's… — Jennie Finch Copy Share Image
“It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“After you have planned each detail of an activity, organized a tray of materials, and practiced with them, you can model a… — Paula Polk Lillard Copy Share Image
There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
“My job, as I saw it, was to teach the children how to live within homes and communities. They had to learn… — Marty MacCraken Copy Share Image
I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
“Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away… — Paula Garces Copy Share Image
Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
I'm an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and… — JWoww Copy Share Image
“Attachment, we have noted, does its work invisibly. People who out of pure instinct have created a good attachment relationship with their… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
Simply because our times are complex, does it follow that our parenting must also be? Must we reject the common sense that… — Fred G Gosman Copy Share Image
As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“When you hate your parents or dislike certain traits that they have, you are actually giving them more attention and directing your… — Yong Kang Chan Copy Share Image
“7. ENERGY: The tales of spirited kids I hear from parents are truly amazing, like that of the two-week old baby that… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
