I think that the expectation on parents has changed from giving your children shelter and love and support and guidance to this… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“Your parent is not open to your thoughts, feelings, and ideas; does not relate to or care about your feelings; does not… — Nina W. Brown Copy Share Image
With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“If you do not influence them, someone else will. If you are not shaping their values, others will do it for you.… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“Overall, your want to present yourself to your child as an ally, empathetic to his feelings, and responsive to his needs -… — Hilary Flower Copy Share Image
Because your child is your first priority, your're more selective, so in order to let someone into that world, they have to… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
“Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
“kid. Once you reach a certain age, the world has no more parents. But it contains a truly shocking number of children.… — David Litt Copy Share Image
“If you want to bring forth grit in your child, first ask how much passion and perseverance you have for your own… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Many parents worry that theywill reinforce a fear by being overly sympathetic. It helps toknow that when children are permitted to avoid… — Cathy Rindner Tempelsman Copy Share Image
Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my mind… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the… — Sam Childers Copy Share Image
“Being abandoned through the neglect of our developmental dependency needs is the major factor in becoming an adult child. We grow up;… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“There is no parent more vulnerable to the excesses of overparenting than an unhappy parent. One of the most important things we… — Madeline Levine Copy Share Image
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet,… — Charles Loring Brace Copy Share Image
“But a child, so recently come into the world from the void of creation, can be more resilient than the strongest man,… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
Children are incurable romantics. Brimful of romance and tragedy, we whirl through childhood hopelessly in love with our parents. In our epic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm quite tactile, so I like fabrics that feel good. I try to avoid fabrics that crease - especially with my son.… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
“Whereas the will is made of titanium and steel, the human spirit is a million times more delicate. It reflects the self-concept… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don’t want to be over-protective and so… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
“As our children turn even five or six degrees away from us, we have to be aware of our fear and our… — Daniel Gottlieb Copy Share Image
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The thing that I've found is there's more to it than just presenting them with good options. You need to step in… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I think, along with the great joy and excitement of having a child, it seems to be that the common themes are… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
Any time you see your child in need or in pain, I think as parents we immediately go into fix-and-protect mode. But… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
“When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Having kids - the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings - is the biggest job anyone can embark on.… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
