“Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That's called growing up.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be. — Mark Lester Copy Share Image
“Parents are toxic to the children and children are poison to the parents. No one with childrens is ‘appy.” — Julien Grenier in WISHBONE Copy Share Image
I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management. — Carol Bartz Copy Share Image
“There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one's sense of what is real.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“When coming to making kids: Size doesn’t count, it’s sperm count that counts.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Be the kind of person your parents would be proud to know, even if they weren't related to you.” — E.J. Hagadorn Copy Share Image
You spend years wishing your parents would get off your back , only to realize that they are the only ones who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be… — Faye Snyder Copy Share Image
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Any encounter, any situation in which there was a confrontation between us as children and our own parents, or teachers, when we… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be… — Trinny Woodall Copy Share Image
“Teach her about privilege and inequality and the importance of giving dignity to everyone who does not mean her harm—teach her that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Each time somebody working for the Maison has a baby, the atelier creates miniature blouses-blanches, exactly like the ones we wear, with… — Martin Margiela Copy Share Image
December finds himself again a child Even as he undergoes his age. Cold and early darkness now descends, Embracing sanctuaries of delight.… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
“You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel." I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
When you're making a decision that involves your children a certain amount of clarity comes with it. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child. — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.” — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
Children may not inherit their parents' talent,but they absorb their values. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.” — Hannah Kahn Copy Share Image
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children. — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image